Word: russias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter in Russia...
...Marshal Rokossovsky, who has taken over the Polish Army "as a Pole" [TiME, Nov. 21], reminds me of the story about the Polish peasant woman whose son has just rushed home with the good news that their farm is no longer in Poland but is now a part of Russia. "Thank Heaven," said the old lady, "I don't think I could have lived through another Polish winter...
...flaccid indecisiveness in the whole affair, the Chinese Communists had apparently bowed to international indignation and, more important, to their desire for diplomatic recognition and the right to represent China in the U.N. Ward's release came only a day after the U.S. appealed to 30 nations (including Russia) for help in freeing the consul general and his aides...
...deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while in office were international atomic controls (Russia...
...chief argument for recognition of the Chinese Communists is not that non-recognition would make Mao Tze-tung "completely dependent on, and subservient to, Moscow," for Russia will not provide capital goods and technical skill to the Chinese Reds "whether it can spare them or not." Russia can ill afford to export these items, and is not likely to do so just because the Chinese Communists would like very much to have them. Non-recognition by the U.S. would merely make industrialization unfeasible in China. China in that case would neither starve nor collapse nor become Russia's puppet, though...