Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JULY. A Soviet note, replying to a U.S. protest, drops the excuse of "technical difficulties," and claims (for the first time) that Berlin is really part of-the Soviet occupation zone...
...days later, the report said, a Soviet Embassy official went to Nelson's home, gave him "ten bills of unknown denominations." The committee recommended that Nelson be prosecuted for espionage and cited for contempt of Congress. It said that the testimony of "Scientist X," who swore that he had never known Nelson, would be turned over to the Attorney General...
...Russians restrict barge traffic into the Soviet zone...
This week the West stopped talking to Moscow about the Berlin crisis. Instead, it started talking to the world. In Paris, George Marshall, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman gravely announced that the Soviet Government had made further negotiations impossible; consequently they were taking the issue of the Berlin blockade to the United Nations...
...next day, the U.S. State Department published a massive 77-page "white paper." Compiled day by day as the secret negotiations with Moscow wore on, it revealed the remarkable story of an earnest, untiring and utterly futile attempt to reach understanding with Soviet Russia. The only possible inference: Russia did not want to reach an understanding, and was simply stalling for time...