Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the free world knows of the nightmarish operation of the Russian police state has been mainly divulged by people who fled the regime because they hated it. U.S.-born Anna Louise Strong, 63, apparently still loves and admires the Soviet system, although she was roughly tossed out for "spying" (TIME, Feb. 28). The New York Herald Tribune (with 20 other U.S. newspapers) this week published Anna Louise's own story of her arrest...
Said the Trib, in its introductory note: "It is damning because it is authentic; and it is authentic because its author is a convinced Soviet sympathizer . . . Every present protestation by Miss Strong of her continued devotion to the Kremlin only underlines . . . the fact that friends and enemies alike are only insects under the heel of the vast, impersonal and inhuman despotism which she served...
...rumble of moving furniture came again last week from the blank-walled Soviet fortress. This time it was a brief official announcement that Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, 53, had been "relieved of his duties" as Minister of Armed Forces and replaced in that post by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky (also 53). Again speculation buzzed through the free world. What did this rumble mean...
...Marriage Brokers. Through the political fog that hangs over Germany the dim outlines of a political ghost can be seen-the ghost of a dark, homely man named Karl Radek. It was Radek, Soviet Russian agent in Germany after World War I, who pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost...
...citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...