Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he finally took aim at Moscow, he drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...
Sustained Meanness. These were measurements to apply in the future. Acheson had an assignment to carry out a policy already clearly outlined. The policy was to keep a hard eye on the Russian neighbor and to contain him on the ground he had seized. This was not the way Americans usually liked to behave. They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which...
...dishing up a fortnight ago the warmed-over, spiced-up story of pre-Pearl Harbor spying for Russia by Japanese and German Communists in Japan (TIME, Feb. 21). Most of all, it had blundered in charging, without documentation, that leftish Journalists Agnes Smedley and Guenther Stein were actually Russian spies...
...same time, the Bulgarian press began to publish the "confessions" of the 15 Protestant leaders indicted for treason. Methodist Yanko Ivanov was said to have admitted giving the U.S. information "on Russian troop movements in Bulgaria." Congregationalist Vassil Ziapkov was quoted: "We betrayed our Motherland, we revealed her secrets before enemies...
...beginning, Anna Louise Strong was not quite happy with her Communist god. When she went to Russia as a relief worker for the American Friends' Service Committee, and later as a U.S. correspondent, her enthusiasm for the cause met with limited response. She tried to join the Russian Communist Party. She was refused.* Taunted a Russian comrade: "A sentimental bourgeois like...