Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell you how this thing looks to me. Tom Dewey is running for President of Rotary International. Harry Truman is running for Mayor of Independence, Mo. Strom Thurmond is running for President of the Confederate States of America. Henry Wallace is running for President of the Soviet Union. The only man who seems to be running for national office is Earl Warren. He's running for Vice President of the United States. We've had a Vice President for the last three years. I'm running for cover. GREEN PEYTON San Antonio...
Said a joint announcement by the three Western powers: "Additional food during the winter months will help to sustain the population in their clearly expressed intention not to submit to the harsh consequences of the blockade . . . The Soviet occupation power has vainly attempted to gain political advantages in the city by inhumane and illegal means...
...same time, he warned against halting America's rearmament program. "One can hardly expect at the outset to do more than persuade the Soviet philosophers that the advent of world Communism has been postponed...
Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
...movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian...