Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about. During the week, Andrei Gromyko had blackballed the U.N. membership applications of Trans-Jordan, Eire, Portugal, Italy and Austria. He had blocked two more resolutions to do something about Greece. These Soviet gestures had required seven more vetoes (breaking all records for any week) and had raised the Russian total to 18 vetoes...
...Alexander Nevsky" is in many ways a strange, absorbing picture, but as Russian propaganda its effect is-mainly comical. It goes back to the Thirteenth Century, when Russia was menaced by a medieval German army, and concerns the over-whelming victory of the Russians under their hero, Nevsky. Though the tale is told as simply and as powerfully as an epic, there is much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera...
This step might become one of the most significant landmarks in U.N.'s constitutional development. If Russian abuse of the veto could be countered through Assembly action sanctioning peace-enforcement by individual states, then U.N. would have made a long step toward world government. Would the U.S.S.R. stay in a U.N. which could be used to oppose Russian policy as long as the U.S. had a majority in the Assembly? And was the U.S., which at San Francisco had favored the Big Power veto, really ready to submit all future security cases to the will of the majority...
...anyone professing belief in "democracy" at the same time seriously defend Russian conduct in the Balkans...
...their information by studying and analyzing the light of the bright stars. They know almost nothing about the smaller bodies in distant space which are not self-luminous, i.e., planets, meteors, comets. But they suspect a great deal and are forever looking for proof. Last week, in Science magazine, Russian-born Astronomer Otto Struve, head of the observatories of Chicago and Texas Universities, described some delicate observations that allowed him to spot tiny meteors 250 light years (about 1,500,000,000,000,000 miles) away...