Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Colonel Ott. the Japanese ought to be glad that these German officers have not been replaced by Soviet military experts, and anyhow the German Republic which preceded the Nazis unfortunately gave up the extraterritorial rights of Germans in China. Therefore, perspired Colonel Ott, the Nazis today dare not antagonize the Chinese who could turn around and crack down in their native courts upon Germans any day-whereas U. S., British, French and Japanese citizens in China still are protected by their precious "extraterritorial rights...
...last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...this Scheme both sides in Spain were to receive recognition of their belligerent rights after the withdrawal of "substantial" numbers of the foreign volunteers now fighting with their troops (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). "Please, gentlemen, proceed," Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky unexpectedly told the Non-intervention Committee last week. "We [the Soviet Union] will step aside and abstain from voting on the controversial portions of the British plan [the Scheme], giving our blessing to the rest of it. Thus the door is not bolted, it is open. . . . Proceed, gentlemen, proceed...
Searching for the best phrase with which to hail Joseph Stalin, Soviet editors not long ago began calling him "Our Sun." This caught on in the Soviet Union from coast to coast. Like Louis XIV of France, Le RoiSoleil ("The Sun King"), Dictator Stalin is the actual Sun around which Communist constellations revolve, might say truly if he liked "L'etat c'est moi." One day last week Sun Stalin stood refulgent atop the Red Square tomb of Lenin and more than 1,750,000 Soviet citizens marched past him carrying flags and banners. Meanwhile, Madrid had devoted...
...week an official Spanish Leftist delegation arrived in Moscow bearing gifts and greetings. Madrid's main thoroughfare for a distance of a mile was decked with crossed flags: the red, yellow and purple tricolor of Leftist Spain and the hammer & sickle banner of Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular. Moscow marchers across...