Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet Russia; 4) promise collaboration with Great Britain if it reverses its present, conciliatory approach to the Fascist powers...
...because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Minuet from "L'Arlesienne" Bizet *Soviet Iron Works Mossolov *Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinieu-Heifetz "Artist's Life," Waltzes Strauss *Sixth Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Granados *March, "On the Mall" Goldman *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
...before the promised new era was well launched in Europe, musical modernism was in trouble with the dictators, who objected to it as: 1) extreme individualism, 2) an unsettling symptom of unrest. In 1936 Soviet Russia joined the procession, banning as "leftist" the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, and declaring that the "formalistic ideas" of modernistic music were "founded on bourgeois musical conceptions" (TIME...