Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic situation in Russia's Germany has become increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans in the Russian zone-apparently including Communists-urged the Soviet military government to come to terms with the U.S. and Britain. One of last week's countless rumors was that Moscow had sent an emissary to Washington to talk over a possible lifting of the siege...
...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
Britain's tweedy Amateur Archeologist Egerton Sykes, onetime army intelligence officer, is willing to take the Bible's word at face value. For years he has longed to investigate Mt. Ararat, the 16,946-ft. peak which straddles Turkey and Persia at the border of Soviet Armenia. Recently he announced his intention of leading an expedition there in June. Dean Aaron J. Smith of North Carolina's People's Bible College, another enthusiastic amateur, said he would go along. "It's not necessarily the Ark we hope to find," explained Sykes, "but any ship...
...alert editors of Moscow's Pravda, however, were not to be taken in by any such fairy tale. Historical materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather...
...Communist Party newspaper Pravda said yesterday a British Embassy officials has accused Prime Minister Clement Attlee's labor government of war mongering and of selling out Britain to the United States. The official, identified as Archibald R. Johnston, was quoted as saying he had decided to remain in the Soviet Union in order to devote all of his "energy and talents to the question of peace...