Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin's Generals. Not so confusing as it at first appears is the fact that Spanish Communists and the Soviet officials assisting them are doing everything in their power to prevent Leftist Spain from going too Red. Communism, by Steel Man Stalin's present definition, is primarily for Russian consumption. A Fascist Spain would be a tragedy for Moscow, but alienating France and Britain would be a tragedy too. To suit Stalin, the social revolution in Spain must wait or move slowly until threats of war to the Soviet Union from Germany and Japan are ended. Among...
...experienced generals from Russia, who have played a much greater part in the victories of the People's Army than the 5,000-odd Soviet Red Army soldiers now in Spain, are changed every few months, operate mostly under false names, keep in the background as much as possible. Many have not been of Russian nationality, one is known to have remarked with a grin, "I have five perfectly valid passports, one American." Veteran New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews names as non-Spanish Leftist Generals Kleber, Lukacs. De Gorieff (also called Van Rosen), Gall, Walter...
Keynoting, Premier Dr. Negrin promised to issue food cards to everyone in Leftist Spain to ensure equal nourishment for all; he thanked the Soviet Union and Mexico for their aid; flayed Hitler and Mussolini; promised to be "merciless with profiteers"; advocated "banking controlled by the Government" and climaxed: "the war may last six months, or a year or two, but however long it lasts our economic strength will not be exhausted...
...performances. In this unsubsidized function, the board says what it thinks. Of 1937's pretentious crop, it found unpretentious Night Must Fall the best. Of 20 films mentioned, ten were foreign-made. Leading the performers was French Harry Bauer, in the Prague-made The Golem; high up was Soviet Nikolai Cherkassov (Baltic Deputy). Hollywood's 14-year-old Jackie Cooper made the list; the industry's 1937 darling, Mr. Paul Muni...
...most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...