Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even that might be a long time for the Russians to wait; so swifter means were tested this week. In retaliation against the Western powers' new German currency (TIME, June 28), Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky proclaimed that the Russians alone had the right to determine what currency should be used in Berlin, issued "new" money of his own by pasting stickers on old reichsmarks. (Berliners preferred crisp U.S.-printed bills, called the Russian currency "Tapetenmark"-wallpaper money...
...Jeanette Wolff, a former governess whom her friends call "The Trumpet" because she has become one of Berlin's toughest, most vocal anti-Communist delegates. A resolution defying Sokolovsky's order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again." She, too, was beaten...
...enforced speed limit is 20 m.p.h.). "It was going to beat hell," remarked an American MP later. A U.S. traffic patrol, consisting of a jeep and an armored car, promptly raced in pursuit. After a two-mile chase they overtook the limousine, leveled machine guns at it. Frantically the Russian driver pointed to the back seat and screamed: "Marshal! Marshal...
...have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
...this schoolroom in a converted rooming house in the capital, Stalin's praises were still being sung last week-but not for long. The Kremlin had ordered the Soviet School closed, and the 45 schoolkids (children of Russian diplomats and clerks) returned to Russia. In New York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...