Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although pointing out that the new Russian center would not duplicate the work of the present regional studies program headed by Donald C. McKay, professor of History, Kluckhohn said that it would be "like any other program at Harvard...
...headed, green-eyed problem of sovereignty and national interest. Palestine security posed the very same problems that have always sapped the United Nations of its intended strength. The U.S. didn't want to offend, any more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator of the plan, the United...
...landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream shop had the Russian word for "ice cream," morozhenoye, before the Polish word, lody...
...Connected Vessels." Meanwhile, the regime is building its strength for that eventual struggle by weakening everything else in Poland. A scientist put it to me: "All Polish life is being lowered to the Russian level by the law of connected vessels."† A prime factor in the Red drive for more & more power is the secret police, which last week had its 1947 budget of $170 million upped to $230 million...
...call "criollo"': dark hair (greying at 44), black mustache, a toothpaste-ad smile. He is a neat dresser, a quiet talker. Except for his antiCommunism, he has no platform so far. He promises only to carry on Grau's policies, hoping that the growing anti-Red, anti-Russian feeling, combined with general satisfaction with Grau's record, will be enough to put him in the Palace...