Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...arresting Stephen T. Thuransky, a naturalized American who had told Hungarians what he thought of their Communist-run Government. Thuransky fought his way free of guards, found overnight sanctuary in the U.S. Legation. Next day, with his family, he was whisked out of Budapest by U.S. plane. His Russian exit clearance, obtained in three hours, was the fastest on record...
...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
...Rovaniemi, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is the little community of Varejoki. The people of Varejoki, struggling desperately to keep alive and to create a new life for themselves, are a strange assortment. There are 50 Finnish farmers-mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory-who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks. There are several score prisoners-mostly short-term smugglers and black marketeers-who live in improvised barracks almost without guards. And there are 35 welcome visitors sent by the American Friends Service Committee from half a dozen countries...
Died. General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. 74, peasant-born onetime Imperial Russian Army officer, who in 1919 led his White troops in a drive through southern Russia to near victory over the Reds; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich...