Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unsympathetic. Nor were Comrade Molotov's statements on general policy lost on his hearers. He put to rest any thought that the Soviet Union was thinking of lining up with Germany, although he saw no harm in continuing German-Russian trade relations. The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, "can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors...
...France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
...neighbors that the U. S. S. R. has "grown in strength," and was no longer the exhausted nation of 1921, or even the comparatively healthy fledgling of five or ten years ago. In this estimate all Europe, dictators and democrats alike, seemed to agree last week. For if the Soviet Union was a negligible military power, as many a rumor had it last autumn (see p. 28A), then why all the courting...
Ever since Munich Blum has been plumping for French rearmament, strengthening of the Franco-Soviet Pact, a united front against aggressors. He has supported Premier Daladier's foreign policy since that policy edged away from appeasement, even traveled to London to persuade the Labor Party to abandon its traditional fight against conscription...
Sudden suppression of Russia's 1937 census figures and the "disappearance" of statisticians who prepared them led to that bad internal conditions had lowered Russia's population, doubts abroad about Soviet military civil strength...