Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to bore the committee," dug into a selection of the 100-odd speeches and statements he had delivered between 1939 and 1948. They were speeches of an experienced diplomat who had first been hopeful of friendly relations with a wartime ally, but had watched the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations with growing concern, and had been among the first officials to sound the alarm. Said Acheson: "The things I read about my being an appeaser are so incredible that I cannot believe that even disinterested malevolence could think them...
...Never again," said U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, would she accept a compromise in the United Nations merely to win Soviet support for something everyone else had agreed on. For three years Delegate Roosevelt has tried her level best to get along with the Russians. Last week, in a speech at Washington, she conceded that it hadn't seemed to work. "I don't think I will ever compromise again even on words," she said. "The Soviets look on this as evidence of weakness rather than as a gesture of good will...
...months before, Western Europeans had been in desperate fear of Soviet aggression. They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
Hope for the Backward. Genetics probably offers the Soviet authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western...
Western genetics does not maintain that "backward" races are backward because of hereditary deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...