Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, now the headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Chinese felt safe last week because many Soviet war planes flown by expert Soviet pilots had arrived to protect them. The Russian aces, large, square-headed fellows of the surly, close-mouthed type seen in Leftist Spain, kept rigidly to themselves, but Chinese never doubted they would go up and do battle at the first Japanese air attack...
Then one afternoon a squadron of 40 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes came thundering upriver, proceeded to dump several tons of explosives upon the city, setting large districts afire. Through it all the Soviet pilots remained morosely on the ground beside their planes. Dispatches recorded "acute Chinese disappointment." Correspondents could get no explanation of the Soviet surliness past Chinese censors...
...Great Powers, Frenchmen attached unusual importance last week to a brief statement by General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief of the French General Staff, in time for the plot to be nipped...
Significant was the fact that the Soviet Government did not immediately explode with angry protests and denials of such grave charges by a French general on active duty. Equally significant was the fact that such charges had been made against a country which is nominally France's military ally. Frenchmen were left to infer 1) that the charges were true, 2) that the French General Staff considered France's military alliance with Russia about washed...
White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...