Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, engaged "in oceanographic research," they were moving unobtrusively as seals through Arctic waters north and west of the Soviet base at Murmansk. One evening, just after the Cochino and Tusk rendezvoused off Norway's North Cape, the mission came to a sudden end. An explosion, apparently caused by hydrogen from storage batteries, rumbled in the Cochino's vitals...
While the Cominform sat, all the Balkans were abuzz with ominous rumor and foreboding fact. U.S. newsmen in Belgrade reported three mechanized Soviet divisions moving westward through Hungary and Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...
...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...
...theory, or the Kremlin's telling the astronomers what cosmogony is good for them and what is bad, the demoralization of the spirit is dangerous." Although he believes that nine-tenths of the Russian scientists are "aware of the social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady were transitory...We cannot condone the Soviet infringement," he concluded, but "perhaps in some way we can help them discover the error and ultimate futility of their policy...