Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Shensi. Of the 80,000 who had started out, only 20,000 reached their promised, unpromising land. Mao Tse-tung moved into a convenient cave in the cave-city of Yenan, just below the Great Wall, and proceeded to build his beaten Communist remnants into a new Soviet state...
...Communists undertook formally to abolish the Soviet system, and to merge the Red army with Chiang's forces. To the rank & file, Communist leaders explained carefully that these were "temporary" measures to give the Communist forces a chance to recover from their "battle fatigue." Very clearly, Mao spelled out Communist strategy: "The war between China and Japan is an excellent opportunity for the development of our party. Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise, and 10% fight the Japanese...
...morning last week FBI agents knocked at the apartment door. When they left, they took Mr. Lewis with them. A few hours later the FBI announced that Mr. Lewis was the long-sought Sam Carr, a top agent of the wartime Soviet spy ring in Canada. Carr was turned over to the U.S. Immigration Department to await a deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked...
Instead, Sam Carr, like a good Communist, went back on his promise and headed right into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada...
...vestrymen have long looked askance at the sayings & doings of their ministers, Rector John Howard Melish, 74, and his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38 (TIME, May 3). Son William, a confirmed Communist-liner, is chairman of the Red-fronting National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and has been associated with at least six other organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General's office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done had he been...