Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party's ace public-relations man with foreigners...
Knautschke, a resident of the Berlin Zoo, is a fine, broad-backed figure of a hippo, but he was lonely until his helpers discovered a mate for him: a female hippo in the Leipzig Zoo, named Crete. There was one hitch: Leipzig is in Germany's Russian zone...
Discreet East-West negotiations were begun. The Russian zone authorities found it in their hearts to let Crete go to Berlin. For 383 hours, Knautschke and Crete were kept in adjoining cages, permitted only to engage in some sedate nose-rubbing. Then they were allowed to meet at closer quarters. When Crete goes back to Leipzig, the Russian zone will get her baby, but another Leipzig female may be coming up for Knautschke...
...commissioners disagreed. The battle between them began on the Petersberg, then shifted to the U.S. headquarters at Frankfurt. Unresolved, it was transferred by plane to Berlin, where the commissioners had a date to attend a Yehudi Menuhin concert. They had invited Lieut. General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of the Russian zone, but Chuikov's seat was vacant...
...that the tutelage of Germany required foresight and cohesion, that the job could never be done by high commissioners pulled this way and that by narrow considerations of advantage to their nations. If that lesson was not learned, the only gainer from the Bonn experiment would be the absent Russian General Chuikov...