Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagine there are in the Soviet Union certain leaders who are more desirous of being conciliatory than they are of pursuing the policy of harshness we have encountered. But it would be difficult to say who they are. There is never a cleavage in the Politburo. There are certain differences of opinion before policies are made and adopted. But as to a cleavage . . . that is a little bit beyond the scope of my imagination...
...microfilmed, then return the originals to the official the same night. By the time the documents were back in department files next morning, Chambers would be in New York, opening up his tobacco pouch from which he drew his microfilm copies to deliver to Colonel Boris Bykov, the chief Soviet military intelligence agent...
When box-jawed U.S. Lieut. General John Hodge moved his occupation troops into Korea in 1945 his program was: clean up the Japs; set up a free government; get out. Hodge's Soviet opposite number, Colonel General Ivan Chistyakov, whose forces held Korea north of the 38th parallel, had different orders: set up a Communist police state; build up a powerful native army; then...
...missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...
While TV antennas mushroom from U.S. rooftops, the rest of the world is coming to grips with the new "eater of hours" much more slowly. Only three nations have made even faintly comparable progress : Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. (Canada hopes to have TV, with U.S. equipment...