Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage had ended just a week after Bob Lovett was first approached last March for the Under Secretary's job. Those were the bewildering days of false hopes and gradual disillusion in the face of Russian obstruction. This short and costly era was ended somewhat hysterically by the Truman Doctrine, the first official recognition of the cold fact of Russian aggression, and the first official evidence of U.S. determination to meet...
...long enough to prove that Communism could not be stopped by dollars alone. At the London conference of foreign ministers last November, George Marshall wrote the end to that chapter himself. He stripped Russia's policy down to its bare essentials: the wreckage of Europe in preparation for Russian seizure...
What, then, could the U.S. do? Against Russian fifth columns, against sabotage and debilitating strikes, against the seizure of a country by its "own" Communist Party, the U.S. had as yet no effective weapon. The fall of Czechoslovakia four weeks ago, was final proof of that...
These words made Henry Wallace the most quoted American in the Russian press last week. Moscow's papers gave only four sentences to the President's message to Congress (see above). Wallace's rebuttal got two columns. One Nancy Norman, a U.S. ballet dancer, back in London after a six-weeks' visit to Moscow, said that Wallace was "Russia's No. 1 foreign...
...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...