Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kennan, in brief, recommended "a policy of firm containment [of Russia] . . . with unalterable counterforce at every point where the Russians show signs of encroaching"-until the Soviet Union either "mellows" or collapses. Kennan detected in Soviet power "seeds of its own decay." He also believed that the U.S., meanwhile, could show the world that it was a nation of "spiritual vitality." If it could only hold, therefore, the U.S. and democracy would...
...Boston Mather warned that in two or three years this country will sink into economic collapse 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...
...free on Annunciation Day, was quieted down; birds were rarely set free nowadays -for one thing, they served as food, and for another, the symbolism of freedom involved was frowned upon. The Kremlin chimes no longer played Glory to our God in Zion; instead they played the Soviet Anthem. But the people still clung to their saints, with whom Moscow's new masters have, of late, tried to make an uneasy peace...
Died. Hans Kahle, 48, commander of the Loyalist International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, original of the General in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; after a stomach operation; in Ludwigslust, Soviet Zone of Germany. The Russians had rewarded Kahle's faithful Party work by making him chief of police of Mecklenburg state...
...from the Soviet view it was not all bad. Though Russians would have to keep belts tightened, there would be grain to spare for the Soviet Union's eastern European satellites which had spurned the Marshall approach, but, last year, ate 1.7 million tons of imported wheat. Most of that wheat had come from...