Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thoroughly chilled by a strong Communist wind blowing through Europe, the President's Committee on European Reconstruction recently advocated a long-range program of economic aid to stalwart continental democracies. Mr. Averill Harriman, committee chairman, spoke in cold, harsh tones of survival. A ruthless and determined Russian drive for world domination could be stalled only by a speedy resurrection of such democratically minded nations as Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. While a 17 billion dollar loan is well-designed for the task, Mr. Harriman's enthusiasm seems to have overwhelmed his logic, for he also advises an immediate withdrawal...
...Emergency Reconstruction Program, as endorsed by Secretary of State Marshall, calls for interim aid to pull France, Italy and Austria through the winter, and a long-term subsidization of the sixteen nations in western Europe. Spread over a periods of four years, the ERP intends to thwart Russian expansion through a rebirth of European industry and by fostering confidence in democratic forms of government. Although U. S. loans will provide the necessary funds, the actual burden of economic recovery rests with each individual nation. Those countries receiving American aid must insure their recovery by stringent budget supervision, a complete stabilization...
...guaranteed anti-Communist government in each of the sixteen nations, Mr. Harriman ranks governmental ideology, above mass hunger, a stipulation which can only reduce the effectiveness of his plan. Any nation with a strong Communist party could conceivably be denied aid. This would result in a further infiltration of Russian ideas at the expense of American prestige...
...opposite viewpoint will have Niebuhr as a defender. Law Forum officials postulate that he will either claim that all Communism must not be equated with the Russian model and that forms of Communism not based on a police state are theoretically compatible with Christian theology, or else espouse the view that no political system should be required to lean on a theological system...
...Theater, based on a story of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl-Partisan heroine who was executed by the Nazis. Aram has won the Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made a big hit with the Russian public during the war by returning one of his 50,000-ruble Stalin prizes ($10,000) and asking that a tank be built with the money...