Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals and newspaper bigwigs at the Soviet Embassy earlier in the week, called at the White House before introducing his resolution. First guess was, therefore, that Franklin Roosevelt had inspired or at least approved his action as a means of justifying a new blast at totalitarian foreign policies in general...
From Hankow headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...
...further Soviet planes were being delivered now, according to Hankow officials. China's fighting pilots are now about half Chinese, half Russian, with more Chinese pilots rapidly training under Soviet instructors...
...always nondescript Chinese air force, consisting chiefly of planes built in the Soviet Union, the U. S., Italy and Britain, was further unstandardized last week by the addition of several German light bombers and a squadron of French pursuit planes. The Generalissimo has disbanded, dismissed the U. S., French and other foreign free-lance pilots of the famed Chinese Fourteenth Bombardment Squadron, today has enough Chinese and Russian airmen...
...blanket decree signed by Dictator Joseph Stalin last week ordered corrected some abuses typical in Soviet collective farming which have been fully described by Soviet officials who have fled Russia, have never been mentioned by dispatches from Moscow. Promptly the New York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms...