Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh of India, U.S. engineers of the Kaiser Engineers Division are just about finished with a new 1,000,000-ton addition to the Tata Iron & Steel Co., a private investment made possible by the World Bank's highest single industrial loan: $75 million. But it is Soviet-sponsored Bhilai that is getting the big play...
...interest-has worked to its advantage. In Indian eyes, this makes the Bhilai project a business deal rather than an embarrassing "gift" (since 1947 the U.S. has showered a whopping $1.75 billion on India in gifts, loans and credits). Furthermore, at cost to its own steel industry, the Soviet Union has been sending India its top talent. "They have to be our best men," said one Russian. "You can say it is a matter of face. But we want this plant to work...
...Most Humble. If anything goes wrong, the engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
Though the 854 Russian technicians have brought along their families to India, they employ no servants. They ride in buses instead of private cars or Jeeps. The Russians work 16 hours a day, are careful never to mention politics. But the most effective Soviet ploy of all has been their insistence that every Russian of top rank must have his Indian counterpart. "Here," says one enthusiastic Indian at Bhilai, "we work shoulder to shoulder with the Russians. Elsewhere, we work under the foreigners...
...Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive, and Christ isn't, so it's only natural that they should print more about...