Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin's remarks took the form of a question-answer dialogue with an unnamed correspondent of Pravda, almost as if the Soviet generalissimo were talking to himself. Excerpts...
Under the frozen surface, the cold struggle for power continued. In the Soviet zone of Germany, the Russians were building up a huge new German "police" force (see FOREIGN NEWS). The five Brussels Treaty nations, plus the U.S. and Canada, were getting ready to bring out into the open some plans for a North Atlantic Defense Pact (see CANADA)-under which the U.S. and Canada might start a new flow of military lend-lease to Western Europe. Otherwise, matters were on dead center for a few days...
...world, U.S. soil men have little conclusive information. They know that many once fertile regions are in terrible shape, but they also know that a constant stream of admiring foreign visitors, from Latin America, India, China, the Near East, has come to learn U.S. methods. Last week even Soviet Russia paid the U.S. an unadmitted compliment. Crying loudly (in five pages of Pravda and five of Izvestia) that heedless and greedy capitalism cannot protect its soil, the Russians announced a conservation program (hardly started yet) that is almost an exact copy of what U.S. conservation has already achieved...
...American Military Government. Hallstein, a prewar law professor (at the University of Rostock) who still teaches the subject, was elected rector by his colleagues. Once a professor is approved, he is free to say what he wants (in the Russian zone, professors must submit lecture topics for Soviet O.K.). Books are so scarce that Mimeographed lecture notes sell for sky-high prices on the black market...
Died. Professor Ludwig Christian Alexander Karlovich Martens, Soviet engineer and onetime party bigwig, "ambassador" to the U.S. of the unrecognized Bolshevik government (from 1919 to 1921); of unexplained causes; in Moscow...