Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major party leaders tempered their tone. Socialist Kurt Schumacher expressed "appreciation that the Allies, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have made serious efforts to help Germany." Socialists, Christian Democrats and Free Democrats agreed that Allied troops and security agencies should stay to prevent Russian aggression, but asked that Allied controls over German affairs be abandoned...
Congo Cardinal? The two traditional seats vacant within the Russian sphere of influence-Prague and Warsaw-may not be filled. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It would be humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
...Russian pressure on Berlin grew, so did the stature of howling Frank Howley. The Germans found him fair and understanding, the Russians discovered that he could be neither bluffed nor bent. Under General Lucius D. Clay, Howley became one of the chief architects and symbols of victory at Berlin...
Said Mrs. Olechny later: "At three o'clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...
...Pinega, Josepha Olechny worked as a woodcutter in winter and a farm laborer in summer. In 1941 Stalin made an agreement with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train...