Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to the Atlantic Pact, Churchill went on to say that "no one could have brought about these immense changes in the policy of the United States, Great Britain, and Europe but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet Government...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...spite of Russian propaganda, the Pact is a purely defensive alliance. The hope for peace through the Pact comes from the promise that it will stabilize the European political scene. The Pact draws a clear line between East and West. Each side knows that crossing that line will bring would disaster. Antagonism, may, therefore, lose its value, and the door to cooperation through the UN can be opened. The Pact is the means to this end, and the end must never be forgotten in a struggle to strengthen the means...
...ineffective because the key to negating any "communist propaganda" is influencing Europe (the region considered so crucial in the Atlantic Pact), and not the United States, where anti-Russian and anti-communist feeling is already much too intense. If Schlesinger wished to announce his disapproval of the Conference, he had far better have done so as an individual than through the dubious medium of Professor Hook's dummy organization...
Last year, Max Beloff, who has written a book on American history (Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy), made a six-month tour of U.S. campuses* to find out. There were, he admitted, a few things that pleased him, such as the exhaustive approach to Russian studies (not matched in Britain) of Columbia University's Russian Institute. Yet on the whole, he reported in the current issue of Britain's Universities Quarterly, U.S. higher education offers more to be pitied than copied...