Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unusual parting gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between...
...foreign diplomat, U. S. or otherwise, has ever received kindnesses from Soviet Russia equal to that accorded Mr. Davies, whose outright position as a U. S. money man left room for no ambiguity or misunderstanding between him and his official hosts. Few have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined...
Despite his expressed pro-capitalist opinions. Ambassador Davies showed an appreciation and open-mindedness about the country. On his last trip alone, Mr. Davies reportedly wrote 28 reports on Soviet building for the State Department's confidential files at Washington...
Science is burgeoning rapidly if somewhat unsteadily in the new land of the U. S. S. R. At the town of Yalta, in the Crimea, the Soviet Government has installed a seismograph station with sensitive instruments capable of recording the slightest tremors of the earth. Recently, the savants in charge have been nonplussed by a queer epidemic of quakes. One which agitated the instruments appeared to be in Angora, another in Asia, a third on the Adriatic coast. An extremely violent series of jiggles made the seismologists believe that a quake was occurring right there in Yalta. Oddly enough, however...
...called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing in the U. S. found the 96 paintings prime examples of colorful, realistic, popular art, ranging from Klavdii Labedev's classic The Fall of Novgorod, to almost photographic scenes of factory and peasant life by Soviet artists. Watching the reaction of Wisconsin students, Professor Oskar Frank L. Hagen, curator of the university's paintings, said they were "flabbergasted and enraptured with pleasure...