Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, watched approvingly while Adzhubei, rising with predictable swiftness from cub reporter to editor, turned the doctrinaire voice of Communist youth into a reasonably lively paper. In reward, Adzhubei last May was named editor of Izvestia (circ. 1.800,000), official organ of the Soviet government-and it, too, began taking on a new look...
...Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER and BONN FLIRTS WITH MADRID). Pictures bloomed all over, and the subjects were gay: babies, dogs, water skiers and movie starlets...
...occasional dissident word. Last week it not only published the text of U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations with President Sukarno. 3) Equating mere proclamation with policy. Example: the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, an attempt to scare off Soviet infiltration that, in Author Hughes's opinion, failed...
Peter Piperisms. The national fear of secret diplomacy has become "suspicion of any diplomacy." This, in turn, lies at the core of what Hughes regards as the greatest U.S. diplomatic shortcoming of the past decade, the "evading" of direct negotiations with the Soviet Union. Author Hughes seems to find Soviet diplomatic maneuvers venturesome, flexible and imaginative, however brutal, and American diplomacy uninventive. bumbling and myopic, however decent. He pays ungrudging respect to the Marshall Plan and U.S. intervention in Korea and Lebanon, but he dismisses the concepts of "liberation." "containment" and "massive retaliation" as semantic pacifiers...