Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
...refusal of Truman and Secretary Acheson to leap eagerly after the Stalin lead is not a sign that the United States doesn't want to talk things over with the Russians. Regular diplomatic channels have always been wide open for Soviet-American discussions. Time and again, our government has made overtures through these channels to the Russians for conferences. And each time, the Russians have either refused or remained silent. In one case (the Bedell Smith episode), they seized on one of these diplomatic feelers and splattered it all over the front pages, instead of proceeding calmly to show...
...facts show that this country wants to talk over world problems with the Soviet Union, both within and outside of the United Nations. The facts also show that the Soviet Union does not now desire such conferences. The Russians know how to do diplomatic business; they know that the way to got things done is not through the agency of the world press. In 1939, when Russia wanted to make a deal with Nazi Germany, the Soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi Germany, the soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi campaign to a conciliatory position...
...think there are; because his main duty is to teach the Christian religion . . . The basic question . . . is not freedom of speech . . . but the spiritual health and welfare of the congregation." The leftist Churchman fulminated against "the fear-ridden vestry." With a perfectly straight face, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship expressed its "amazement" and "shock...
Died. Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev, 64, Stalin Prizewinning Soviet musicologist and composer (his work is little known outside Russia), chairman of the powerful Union of Soviet Composers (to which Prokofiev and Shostakovich apologized last year for their "bourgeois, antidemocratic" music); in Moscow...