Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin has beaten Reader Folkman to the punch: because of "American influences," the Soviet Academy of Architecture is now in the throes of a "reorganization...
What set McCarran off was a U.N. debate over restoring full diplomatic recognition to Spain. The Soviet bloc wanted the two-year-old ban continued; most of the Latin Americans wanted it lifted, and so did some U.S. delegates. But Delegates Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles were for continuing the ban. Result: the split U.S. delegation was told to abstain from voting...
...Words from the Sponsor. The huge red banner in the street below proclaimed "In the Soviet sector there is freedom." But on the platform of Friedrichstrasse station, which is in the Soviet sector, burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away...
When the rickety train finally pulled in, the passengers eagerly clambered aboard. Soviet-controlled Radio Berlin began an on-the-spot broadcast, with Werner Klein, its star reporter, poking the mike under passengers' noses and shooting questions. "And where are you going, young man?" he asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren...
While the publishers declare that "this is not warmongering," George Fielding Eliot, in "If Russia Strikes," begins by assuming that there will be wear between the United States and Russia, with the only question being one of time. "We cannot make peace with the present rulers of the Soviet Union," he states on the first page. Thus, as long as the present regime rules Russia the only peace will be one of armed waiting--waiting...