Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amply illustrated by the case of V. S. Pyatov. In 1859, Pyatov tried to get a patent on his method of rolling armor plate. The czarist government submitted it to "foreign vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
Last week, Soviet Bandleader Leonid Utesov produced a satiric view of Russian inventiveness. In a skit at Moscow's Hermitage Gardens, Utesov tells a friend that he is to be congratulated-he has just invented the umbrella. The friend points out that the umbrella has already been invented. "Yes," says Utesov, "but I am the first man to invent the umbrella for the second time...
...short, the representatives of Tass were not primarily newsmen; they were Soviet agents...
...libel suit against Tass for charging in a news bulletin distributed to London newspapers that he had betrayed British paratroopers to the Gestapo. The Court of Appeal dismissed Krajina's complaint. Reason: on the testimony of the Russian ambassador himself, Tass was an official organ of the Soviet state; as such, it was entitled to full diplomatic immunity, even when it published a libel...
...stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...