Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Fred Beal, former Communist party organizer now serving a North Carolina state prison term, today urged the House committee on un-American activities to guard its witnesses against reprisals by party members and the dread. OGPU, Soviet Russian Secret police agency...
...would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...
...Soviet newspaper translations of the speech into Russian made a few minor but significant changes. Where Hitler named "Stalin" this was changed to "Russia." The Führer's assertion that "Soviet Russia remains Soviet Russia and National Socialist Germany remains National Socialist Germany" was telescoped and softened into "Russia remains Russia and Germany remains Germany...
...miles away from India, Indians will probably show no haste in deciding to help the British Lion. Last week, however, the old bugbear of Russian expansion was looming in the North. There were reports of mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet. Few Indian leaders, and certainly not M. K. Gandhi, would care...
Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...