Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make it unlawful to work or conspire toward the establishment in the U.S. of a foreign-controlled, totalitarian government, i.e., the Soviet. (Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and ten years in jail; loss of citizenship...
Henry Wallace was at station KGO in San Francisco last week when the news was brought to him that Joseph Stalin thought his suggestion for a U.S.-Soviet meeting (TIME, May 24) was a fine idea. He looked astonished. Flushed, in a choked voice he said: "If I have done anything that moves the world further toward peace . . . my whole campaign has been tremendously worthwhile...
...learned that Secretary George Marshall did not share Joe Stalin's enthusiasm for a U.S.-Soviet meeting, at least not on the terms that Wallace had laid down. To 8,000 University of California students he cried: "I have no doubt that many of you felt, on reading Stalin's reply, that there was a new ray of hope in the world." Then he bitterly denounced Marshall and the U.S. State Department...
...divided Korea social reforms would not be the new government's biggest or most immediate problem. A bigger problem was division itself. In North Korea, Soviet occupation had created a puppet Communist government with an army of more than 100,000 equipped with Soviet guns, vehicles and even a few aircraft. Communist Puppet Dictator Kim Il Sung could use those forces to "unify" Korea whenever occupation troops withdrew...
...September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama...