Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riffling through a stack of photographs of Soviet bigwigs, the current Tailor & Cutter is driven to the inescapable conclusion that "fashion in Russia died with the aristocrats. The class having been so successfully destroyed, it was natural that all its facets should disappear. And so the Soviet leaders cling grimly to the clothes of the period that saw the birth of their administration...
Personally, said an elegant young London editor last week, "we feel that the greatest possible service to world peace would be the exporting to the Soviet Union of large quantities of American drape shapes, with a stock of the strange ties from Charing Cross Road. Once Russia saw its population trotting about in these ridiculous costumes, its sense of humor would be restored, and the sartorially resplendent nations of East & West would stroll hand in hand into the garmental adventure of the future...
...arrival in China's Communist capital was the big act in an intensive Communist drive to win friends for Soviet Russia. She is chairman of the new Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, now getting top play in China's Communist press...
...Nationalists. She spent two years in Moscow, then returned to Nationalist China. She remained frankly hostile to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, dabbled in welfare work, gathered a circle of international left-wingers around her. When the Communists took over Shanghai, she fell in with their plans for Sino-Soviet friendship...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...