Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...Bergen, two "very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...
...from Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax were credited to papal efforts, Britain went forward last week with its plans to send Chief of the Central European Bureau of the Foreign Office William Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British...
Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...