Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead remained an open question. In Manhattan last week Alexander Kerensky commented that he talked recently with a former fellow prisoner of Nin in the Madrid jail where Nin was held for a time last year. The fellow prisoner told Kerensky that the jail was then in charge of Soviet Russians, and that he believed Nin was taken from Madrid to Moscow. The prosecution insisted at the trial that Nin escaped from Madrid to the Rightist lines, but he has never been reported in Rightist Spain...
With President Lin in Chungking are Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and famed Dr. Sun Fo, a son of the Father of the Chinese Republic. Dr. Sun Fo is the liaison man between the Chinese Government and the Soviet Government. He said frankly, while on his way from Moscow last summer to China, that the Soviet Union was supplying China with most of her war planes and some artillery, but that China depended for her small arms, machine guns and ammunition mainly on what she was able to buy in Europe. Most of this landed at British Hong Kong...
Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...assumed in Moscow that Commissar "Klim" had evidently split into two forces the single great Far Eastern Army previously commanded by Soviet Marshal Vasily Bluecher, who "disappeared" in the purge (TIME...
Before Marshal Bluecher "disappeared" his authority was extended to unify under him the secret police of the Soviet Far East as well as its Red Army. To the All-Union secret police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Home Affairs in Moscow, this was a partial curtailment of authority, and likely was it that potent Yezhov helped to "break" Bluecher...