Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary Forrestal is one man in the present administration who ... is not swayed by the forever complaining minorities who seem to give their allegiance more to Soviet Russia and Palestine than to their own country. As for this "Wall Street" name-calling, the columnists should be advised that this is the end of the '40s, not the middle...
Joseph Stalin had used good words in a statement which he gave out to the world last week in the obvious hope that they would be accepted as an offer of peace. His real purpose quickly became clear. The good words had been timed to present Soviet Russia as a seeker of peace at the moment when the Western nations were concluding an alliance against Soviet aggression. Russia thus hoped to make the defensive North Atlantic pact look like an offensive act, and perhaps an unnecessary one. But while giving soft answers to a U.S. correspondent's questions, Russia...
...answer was "Naturally." Acheson pointed out that the U.S. demobilization had been "not gradual but . . . precipitant." With other U.N. nations, he said, the U.S. had supported attempts to settle disputes peacefully, to establish an international police force and international control of the atomic bomb. Their efforts were blocked by Soviet vetoes and intransigence...
Last autumn, members of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce were thrown into a state of delighted anticipation by news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...cold war. It was a very clever frame-up, and in spite of Secretary Acheson's reasoned reply, it made the United States look like a villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...