Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week U.N.'s General Assembly moved to create a couple of new states. By an overwhelming vote (48 to 1, with nine abstentions) the Assembly decided, after weeks of bickering and Soviet-bloc obstruction, that the former Italian colony of Libya (pop. 1,120,000) shall be independent in 1952. A U.N. commissioner and advisory council will govern the country until then...
...Soviet Russia a one-man show? Says Smith: "[Stalin is not] an absolute dictator on the one hand or a prisoner of the Politburo on the other; his position, I would say, is more that of chairman of the board with the decisive vote. There doubtless are divisions on policy and cliques within the Politburo, but none of them are anti-Stalinist...
...their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
...years, Laurence Todd, a native-born U.S. citizen and onetime Hearstling, has been Washington bureau chief for Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Last week Larry Todd, now a tall, ruddy-cheeked 66 and still an undeviating party liner, had a new and less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after...
Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...