Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for the newly-created Russian Research Center moved ahead last night as the University appointed an expert on Soviet law to a position on the Center's staff...
...face." She does so bluntly: "The people of Berlin are unwilling to surrender to the S.E.D. and the Communist claim for power . . . Our mind and will are firmly set on the goal of Germany as a free and constitutional state . . . We know the seriousness of this hour." (The Russian officer has laid aside his nailfile, and listens intently.) With a bold kind of irrelevance that is a measure of her anxiety, Frau Leber-she is a Catholic and a Socialist-calls upon every international authority she can think of to witness Berlin's plight: the International Court, world Socialism...
...risk everything today .. . But we solemnly warn every democratic citizen of the free world of the urgency of this moment when he must make a good and a clear decision. Otherwise, Berlin will be lost, with only a diplomatic protest as an after-echo." (At the end, the Russian officer is angrily rocking the empty chair beside him back & forth-as if with difficulty repressing an impulse to throw...
...flew to Berlin, where, still mystified by the charges against him, he said: "The Russian leaders first of all want to isolate their people from foreigners living in the Soviet Union . . . One way of doing this is to try to discredit the foreigners by making them appear evil people, degenerates or spies...
While the real reason for his expulsion remained a mystery, other newsmen guessed that Magidoff might have been a stalking-horse in the Soviet campaign to clean up "impurity" in the arts. He had many friends among Russian writers and artists. Thus, branding him a spy would, later, make it easy to purge any writers he had known...