Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western powers offered far-reaching proposals on German reunification and European security, and put forward reasonable offers to reach an interim agreement on West Berlin. The Soviet Union, however, revealed clearly that its true desire is to absorb West Berlin into East Germany and to keep Germany divided until it can be brought under Soviet influence...
...discussions, my Western colleagues and I had foremost in mind the freedom of more than 2,000,000 people of West Berlin. We were determined, and remain determined, to make no arrangement with the Soviet Union that would undermine that freedom...
...together, they have entered defensive alliances with Washington: Canada and Great Britain are members of NATO, Australia and New Zealand have joined the U.S. in ANZUS (excluding Britain) and SEATO. Canada and the U.S. made common cause in building the radar DEW line to prevent surprise attacks by Soviet planes coming from the North Pole...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
With imperturbable mien, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov last week told Washington newsmen that he hoped the American press would treat Russia's national exhibition in the New York Coliseum this summer with "a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation." While the ambassador was making his pitch for fair play-which he would have got from the bulk of U.S. journalists without asking-the Soviet press was whipping up its severest attack since the Stalin era on life in the U.S. The new campaign was obviously the Soviet welcome to the six-week, $5,000,000 American National Exhibition...