Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
...full, brutal meaning of the brooms became clear only when the new government's Ministry of Social Welfare announced that Czechoslovaks fired by the action committees would be sent to labor in mines, quarries, lumber camps. In two weeks Soviet-style forced labor had come to the "new people's democracy" of Czechoslovakia...
...married soon in Denmark." But even that plan presented complications. By week's end there was bad news for the hopeful young king and his Bourbon princess, who was staying with her mother in Paris. From Rome, Papal Secretary Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the Vatican's expert on Soviet-dominated Europe, announced that Pope Pius had refused Roman Catholic Princess Anne permission to marry her Orthodox king unless both agreed to raise all their children as Roman Catholics...
Last week the darkness proved deeper than even the Russians supposed. High-ranking officers in the Red army were reported to be neglecting their Marx and Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...Wallace become an apologist for Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...