Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinly guarded Okinawa would be a cinch. The waters from Okinawa to Hokkaido could be patrolled by their 100 long-range submarines. In short, the fall of China, MacArthur observed, had made possible the military threat of a "double envelopment" of Japan. There was no evidence of an impending Soviet attack. If it came, it could only precipitate, or be part of, the world's worst war. But the business of a commander is not to guess whether a potential enemy intends to attack but to estimate, his ability to attack successfully...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...
...iron curtain around us as effectively, as government can. The ignorance that I think is most dangerous to us is our own. The Nürnberg experience therefore leads me to doubt the wisdom of many people who think we have to ... break in through the Soviet iron curtain, that we must somehow penetrate it with information, news and our own ideology. I agree that the iron curtain is regrettable. But I think it is ultimately more disastrous to those it shuts in than to us whom it shuts...
Berman's first two speeches have considered the claim of Soviet jurists that their law is a "law of a new type, different from all types of law known to history...
Many features of Soviet law are due to the poverty of the Russian legal tradition, Berman said in his first lecture. However, he added it is now attempting to give legal expression to positive elements in the Russian tradition, which, before the Revolution, were extra-legal in character...