Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictator, said: "I cannot deny that we have a large number of Hungarian Nazis in our party. But I would rather have them than businessmen or capitalists." Behind closed doors and drawn blinds, Budapesters heard foreign broadcasts telling of President Truman's protest (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that the Soviet maneuver in Hungary was "an outrage...
...Czechoslovakia, citizens wondered if they were next on the list. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, was enjoying a "rest cure" at the famed curative spa of Carlsbad...
There is no crazy Russian mass in Finland today. The Russians on the Control Commission have been cut to a mere 200. Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all armistice and peace treaty terms, including the highest per capita reparations of any World War II loser. Last year, reparations took one-fourth of Finland's total industrial production and more than one-eighth of her national income...
...More in Sorrow." In a recent lecture on "The British Empire Today," Soviet Historian I. M. Lemin was even more lucid about the White Man's Burden (Yankee-style): "The Soviet Union does not constitute a threat to the British Empire. . . . We do not want to intervene in Britain's overseas relations. ... All the screaming, especially by the Americans, about the Soviet threat to the Empire is merely an excuse for the Americans to penetrate into the Empire. . . . The Americans have consistently opposed imperial preference, and it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is threatening...
...extent did German differences reflect disputes between the occupying powers? Last week, when the U.S. failed to make good all of its food import quota, the Russians refused to continue food supplies for all sectors of Berlin. On the third anniversary of Dday, a scorching editorial in the Berlin Soviet mouthpiece Tägliche Rundschau asserted that U.S. and British airmen had sought out German cities for destruction during the war, neglected military targets. General Lucius D. Clay, U.S. commander in Germany, quietly commented: "I would not dignify that kind of charge with a formal protest." Convinced that a divided...