Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked about Soviet Russia, he made gently critical or defensive statements. The strongest thing he would say was: "I detest dictatorship," quickly adding that the idea that Hitler's dictatorship and Stalin's dictatorship are alike is "criminal ... a myth...
Professor John Somerville of Hunter College, author of "Soviet Philosophy" and former visiting lecturer at the College, will be guest speaker at the twentieth anniversary celebration of Birooidjan--the Jewish autonomous region of the U.S.S.R.--Sunday evening at New England Mutual Hall...
...years, blond, spectacled Episcopalian Melish, 37, has been suiting his actions to his far-leftish words. He is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and has beaten the drum for many another Communist-line cause. As associate rector of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity, he has had a sympathetic boss-his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, 73, rector for 44 years...
London's Communist Daily Worker advertises itself as the only paper in town owned by its subscribers. As "a regular subscriber . . . and therefore a part owner," Major T.V.H. Beamish, a young Tory M.P., lodged a complaint. Why hadn't the Worker invited him to its pro-Soviet "Conference for World Peace" in July? The flustered Worker replied last week: "An invitation will be issued to the Conservative Party, although its leaders can hardly be regarded as the upholders of a peace policy." Subscriber Beamish, it added, would be invited...
...British proposal on press freedom, and the partial draft of a U.N. Covenant on Human Rights, both of which permit penalties for "systematic diffusion" of false news endangering peace. The U.S. opposed both, thinking they went too far in the direction of state control of news. The Soviet bloc opposed them for not going far enough. (It also opposed the U.S. and French proposals...