Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DIED. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions in World War I. . . ." [TIME, June...
...force to use; the international police force was still not in being. So long as Russia insisted that it should be made up of equal contributions of troops from each of the Big Five, it was not likely to come into being; under the Soviet plan the U.S., Russian and British shares could be no larger than China...
...respect of statesmen because it was a forum for mustering world opinion. The organization's high point had come in April 1946, when it made the Red Army get out of Persia. Thus, thanks largely to U.N. and its imposing moral force, Persia had a Government free of Russian domination...
...Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago said that atomic scientists generally approve the U.S. plan for international control of atomic development. Furthermore, they do not think that the Russian alternative is workable. Urey's view was that no progress had been made, and no progress would be made, in the negotiations under U.N. auspices for atomic control. He predicted that the U.S.S.R. would have a stockpile of atomic bombs in eight years "unless they were lucky" and got it sooner. When the Russians can make atomic bombs, Dr. Urey believes war will be inevitable...
...sailors were riding toward an unknown destination; they were not told where they were bound, nor did these servants of a "classless" society dare ask their officers. They preferred to ask me, a foreigner. Most revealing of all was the view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that had been part of Finland. Viipuri was ghostlike and still in the morning sun. The people were in rags. They were still living in dugouts and log houses. Few of the fields were plowed. Everything seemed static...