Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired Diplomacy. There were many battles still to be won; the struggle over Berlin was just beginning. But the U.S. seemed to be on the right track at last. The quiet refusal of General Lucius Clay to back down a fortnight ago in the face of Russian pressure was a prime example of U.S. resolution. Said a businessman in Kansas City: "Now the people of Europe know what to expect. All we need is the determination to carry through...
...newspapers to the Presidential Palace, handed them a news item and an earnest exhortation. The news was the text of Finland's unwanted treaty of "mutual aid" with the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow's Kremlin. The exhortation: sugar-coat the news in order to minimize anti-Russian feeling among Finns...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...
After an hour of speech-making, the convention adopted, by show of hands, a resolution which stated. "We are opposed to the war hysteria in the press and the attempt to orientate American foreign policy in purely anti-Russian term...
...following letter was written on March 14, 1948, by a student at Charles University, a man in his mid-twenties, who is doing advanced work in both English and Russian. He is a Social Democrat. His father, who is a carpenter in a village twenty-five miles from Prague, is a National Socialist. I pass this letter on, not as the whole story in Czechoslovakia, but as a characteristic student opinion. F. O. Matthiessen...