Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fury of the Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall before the General Assembly was discouraging to sincere supporters of the United Nations, it must have sounded like the crack of doom to proponents of world government. By this time it should be clear that, if "World Government or World Destruction" represents a complete choice of alternatives, the future is very bleak indeed...
Dangerous Step. Science of Oct. 5, 1945 printed an article by Biologist Anton R. Zhebrak which looked (to Americans) like an able defense of the freedom of Soviet science. The Soviet Union, said Zhebrak, has many good scientists and allows them professional liberty. Her geneticists, particularly, are doing excellent work...
...Soviet's Zhebrak was on solid, safe ground. But he took another dangerous step forward. He admitted the world's low opinion of Soviet genetics. There is an impression abroad, he said, that all Soviet geneticists are followers of Lysenko. This is not so, said Zhebrak. Many Soviet geneticists "are sharply critical of [Lysenko's] theories...
Unsightly Role. Pravda soon joined the attack. What annoyed Pravda most: Zhebrak's heretical belief that there is no difference between Soviet and non-Soviet science.* "Zhebrak as a Soviet scientist," cried Pravda, "should have unmasked the class meaning of the struggle which is taking place around questions of genetics. But blinded by bourgeois prejudices, by detestable fawning on bourgeois science, he has adopted the attitude of the enemy's camp. . . . It turns out that there is a so-called pure science for Zhebrak. . . . It appears that there is no progressive Soviet biological science; there is no reactionary...
...Boston Mather warned that in two or three years this country will sink into economic college unless European depression is avoided. As temporary chairman of the World People's Congress which gathers in New York City on November '29 he will probably introduce this issue with emphasis on soviet-American relations...