Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Art, official organ of the Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength of our great fatherland," the article said. Circus managers were attacked for "trying to replace the healthy Soviet circus, with its ideology, optimism and purposefulness, with empty, formalistic imitations...
...nationalist problem is far more subtle than Jilka's hysteria, far less a conspiracy of individuals than of circumstances. It is not being nourished by would-be world conquerors or old Wehrmacht leaders meeting in secret underground. It is being nourished by the Soviet-zone concentration camps, which are no more decent than those of the Nazis, by the Soviet blockade of Berlin, by the division of Germany, by the inescapably antidemocratic machinery of military occupation, by the bitter polemics between East & West, by divisions among the Western powers that keep them from forming a coherent policy of their...
...Very Rev. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, still talking about his last trip around the Soviet Union (in a plane which Moscow placed at his disposal), once more insisted that everything was just fine behind the Iron Curtain. "They told me there was complete freedom for their churches," he burbled happily. "I am not saying 'new liberty,' because the same liberty existed before the war. [Now the Russians] have re-emphasized...
Then, in 1931, the routine was suddenly shattered. The "autonomous" government of Outer Mongolia, which was coming more & more under Soviet influence, outlawed Buddhism as the national religion, confiscated the lamasery lands. The Dilowa Hutukhtu withdrew first to Inner Mongolia, then to North China, finally (during the Japanese war) to Chungking. Cut off from his monasteries and obliged to live on a stipend from the Chinese government, he dreamed of retiring to Tibet. But last week, the long-wandering Dilowa Hutukhtu had changed his place of exile once again. He became a resident of Baltimore, U.S.A...
...that the bishop had no right to do such a thing. He sat pat and so did his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38, who was the cause of it all. Young Minister Melish's activities as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and busy associate of several other organizations cited as Communist fronts, had spurred the church's vestry to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe for his father's ouster (TIME...