Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week readers of Pravda were treated to this joke in a front-page spread of Comrade Zhdanov's "personal opinion" that the Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations are deadlocked, that France and Britain are deliberately dragging them out in order to have an excuse for making a pact with Germany. Wrote Tovarich Zhdanov archly: Some friends disagree. One friend who obviously did not disagree was "Dear Friend" Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin, who took this typical way of prodding on the plodding powwows...
Main stumbling-block in the Anglo-Soviet talks from the start has been Russia's insistence that Britain specifically guarantee Estonia, Latvia and Finland against German aggression. Last week Führer Hitler appeared in the singular role of playing Stalin's game for him as the British Government, alarmed over the Danzig situation, was reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during...
...satisfied with having seen 131 of their bombers and fighters mowed down by an enemy that lost only eight planes, foolhardy Soviet Mongolian aviators again dared to violate Manchukuoan territory one day last week. Over the border they roared, 60 strong; up to meet them climbed three spunky Japanese fighters. Machine guns rattled and sheepherders in the Lake Bor district scurried for shelter as flaming Communist planes filled the sky. In a few minutes it was all over, and a pitiful remnant of the Red raiders was tailing for home...
...least that was the Japanese story. According to other Japanese stories, in the past six weeks 251 Soviet Mongol planes have been shot down on the remote Manchukuoan-Mongolian frontier by numerically inferior Japanese defenders who lost only eleven planes. There was no one to contradict them but the Russians. And contradict them the Russians did. Moscow reported that Soviet Mongol casualties were only 32 planes, far less than the 91 Japanese planes they said they had shot down...
...Devil. Dr. Conklin's biological range is wide. His fattest book is on the general subject of Heredity & Environment. This has been translated into French, Russian and Japanese. The Russians, like Dr. Morgan, had a joke at his expense: since formal genetics is a touchy subject in Soviet ideology (TIME, June 26), the Russians deleted page after page that did not suit the party line, then sent him a complimentary copy of his own book, mutilated as well as pirated...