Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lacking any current evidence of Russian marauding, the Administration was doing its considerable best to imbue its $1,450,000,000 military-aid progam with an air of urgency and inviolability. Said Acheson : "The Soviet Union today maintains the largest peacetime military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
Informant ND-402 and friends had confided that Actress Helen Hayes had once performed at a benefit for Russian Relief just after the war and that New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles Tobey had attended a leftist Madison Square Garden meeting on the atom bomb...
...sank the Japanese Fleet? I, said the Russian navy. With my Amur River Flotilla I sank the Japanese Fleet...
Writing in Pravda on Russian Navy Day last week, Soviet Admiral I. S. Yumashev gave the following account of the victory: "We faced the fresh, elite Kwantung Army and considerable Japanese naval forces based on Korea and the West Coast of Japan . . . The [Soviet] Pacific Fleet and the Amur Flotilla began a resolute offensive which ended in the complete routing of the enemy . . . We recovered Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, which had always belonged to Russia,* and the Soviet forces entered Port Arthur. The Japanese beast of prey was forced to his knees; imperialist Japan capitulated...
Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...