Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story told beneath the headlines was that all the time Charles Augustus Lindbergh was supposedly hobnobbing with Nazis in Berlin, and tattling on Soviet Russia to friends of Nazis in Great Britain,* he was actually functioning as a sort of U. S. spy abroad; that instead of letting Messrs. Hitler, Goebbels, et al. dupe him, he was making fools of them for the benefit of world Democracy...
Former Premier Leon Blum, the party's leader, presented resolutions endorsing French rearmament against the Fascist "menace." He wanted the U. S., Great Britain, France, Poland and Soviet Russia to form a democratic front against the dictatorships so that they would have to concede no more to threats of war. M. Blum also wanted France to revive the now moribund French-Soviet alliance...
...routine resignations of 15 ambassadors; 4) submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a decree permitting former President Alessandri to leave Chile for "a rest" in Europe, despite a Constitutional requirement that the old President remain in Chile until six months after termination of office; 5) considered recognition of the Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval...
Speaking about the European situation as a whole, Hicks declared, "The aim of all recent British policy is to build Germany to the point where it can fight the Soviet Union...
...group of Soviet meteorologists, who have recorded Arctic temperatures for a decade, reported last fortnight that the Arctic is warmer. They are backed up by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered...