Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They went into conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
...Unstable Grasshopper. Philip Jessup, a sharp-nosed, curly-haired American, spoke quietly and earnestly, giving the Council the most logical, balanced and damning indictment yet made of Russia's actions in Berlin. Said he: "The acts of the Soviet Government . . . create a threat to the peace. All the world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous...
...weird that the United States, billing itself as the last great bastion of democracy, can consistently woo men like Franco. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers...
...Setting the objectives of adult education as "an understanding of American democratic society and its historic goals, and a dissection of Soviet philosophy and an exposure of its methods...
...that architects had made the mistake of designing buildings that looked nonCommunist. Pravda struck equally hard at the architects who went in for many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead end of formalist sophistication and box-style, soulless construction [but] Soviet art is always going forward along the road indicated...