Word: russias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, De Gaulle fears that an early summit would be largely concerned with Berlin and the German problem, and that on these issues it would be Britain and the U.S. that would feel the public pressure to make concessions, not Russia. He does not believe Russia has paid the price of admission yet: "Favorable signs should develop in the course of the coming months which the debate in the U.N. and the combination of circumstances in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Africa will provide the opportunity to confirm...
...advancing German army in 1939 released Bandera from a Polish jail, and he slipped across the Russian border to organize anti-Soviet resistance. Two years later, when the Wehrmacht attacked Russia, Bandera's partisans fought the retreating Russians and hopefully proclaimed an independent Ukraine. The occupying Nazis scoffed at the idea, and Bandera's men took on the Germans in turn. Tricked into a conference with the Gestapo in 1941, Bandera was arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
...years," says President Jusielino Kubitschek, "Brazil is going to be the world's fourth greatest power, ahead of all others except the U.S., Russia and China. We may even be ahead of China, too." Last week, with 14 months to go in his five-year term, Kubitschek was candidly proud of the humming factories, the new roads slashing through the jungle to the horizon's edge, the new cities leaping from red earth in the interior...
...name of Harvard University is well known in Russia," group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference...
...Russia can no longer extract favorable terms in bargaining with China, the question is raised: who can? Perhaps the Russians feel that the more people have bombs, the more serious disarmament proposals become--but this is small comfort to the other members of the "nuclear club." And it is only a matter of time before the Soviet Union runs out of concessions which would hinder Soviet expansion southward. Khrushchev has announced that Russia is the greatest power on earth--but China's actions speak louder than words...