Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
...Minority Leader Joe Martin called the white paper an "Oriental Munich." Senator Arthur Vandenberg, more temperate, nailed as "tragic mistakes" the State Department's "impractical insistence" on coalition with the Communists, and the Yalta agreement, negotiated, behind China's back, which opened the gates of Manchuria to Soviet armies. The Yalta deal was dismissed by the State Department with shallow cynicism as something the Russians could have done whether or not the U.S. had given its covert legal and moral sanction...
...recommendations which sounded fantastically gullible when set against today's knowledge of Communist General Mao's fealty to Moscow. Arms must be given to the Red forces, it was urged, "to hold the Communists to our side instead of throwing them into the arms of the Soviet Union." Another Foreign Service officer hailed the Communist revolution as "moderate and democratic," giving the people "democratic self-government, political consciousness and a sense of their rights." As far back as 1944 one embassy report flatly declared the Communists were "the force destined to control China." Urged another embassy report...
...Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with Russia and sparked it off with a $2 billion loan...
...When the Soviet people heard about our marriage advertisements, they were astonished that anyone could . . . offer himself in this manner. This was a capitalist practice . . ." Some of these capitalist ads, complained Rude Pravo, still got into the papers "veiled as advertisements asking for or offering to become a 'housekeeper...