Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LAKE SUCCESS, July 21--Four great powers, disagreeing sharply with Russia, expressed "grave" doubts today about admitting Soviet-sponsored Albania to the United Nations...
...Europe, split by Molotov, now line up? Russia herself had shut herself out of the European economy since the Revolution, but most of the nations that had become Soviet satellites had formerly had economic ties with the rest of Europe. These eight countries have a total population of 87 million. The 16 European countries represented at Paris have a total population of 218 million...
...some nervous Americans just imagining things? The evidence of Russia's intention is overwhelming. It is stronger than the evidence of German and Japanese intentions in 1937. Communist leaders subscribe to a philosophy that says the whole world must adopt their social and economic system, and "the international soviet shall be the human race." The Communist philosophy says, further, that good men should work like beavers to bring about this world victory of Communism...
Stalin, who ought to know what Communists think, made, on Feb. 9, 1946, his now famous election speech, a key to postwar Soviet policy. In it, he assessed the chances of peace: "Perhaps military catastrophes might be avoided if it were possible for raw materials and markets to be periodically redistributed among the various countries in accordance with their economic importance, by agreement and peaceable settlement. But that is impossible to do under present capitalist conditions of the development of world economy...
...present pulling and straining of the Soviet satellites, anxious to get into the only prospect that offers Europe hope, attests the wisdom of the latter argument-from a. Soviet standpoint. Where will Poland find a market for her coal? How can the Russians pay Czechoslovakia for quality factory products? When Molotov at Paris broke Europe along the Stettin-Trieste line, most of the best insurance risks, most of 'he countries with high labor productivity, were not on Molotov's side of the line. If Central and Western Europe begin to revive with U.S. help, Molotov may well find...