Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not this proves to be a conference of wrist-slappers, Shanghai dispatches announced this week that at least two of the conference nations, the French Republic and the Soviet Union, are at length helping China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from Soviet Siberia and from French Indo-China. These ships this week were bombing Japanese positions not only at Shanghai but in North China, and every patriotic Chinese itched for the day when they will actually dare to fly over and for the first time in history bomb Japanese towns...
...Horthy was believed in Budapest not to displease Berlin or Rome. His Serene Highness proposed that there be a European League, an Asiatic League and an American League -each to mind its own business. Anyone who knows Admiral Horthy is familiar with his sulphurous epithets for Stalin, and the Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy-exactly the team Benito Mussolini...
...family soon became sweatshop workers. He turned radical instead of rowdy, grew up among U.S. Communist stalwarts and was toughened in proletarian struggle by two-and-a-half years of feverish work as propagandist member of the SaccoVanzetti Defense Committee. For a year he edited in Manhattan the Soviet Russia Pictorial. From this he graduated to assistant director of the New York office of TASS, then as now the official news agency of the Soviet State. Its director succeeded in interesting President Karl A. Bickel of United Press in Mr. Lyons, and when U. P. finally gave...
Although now convinced that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...
...Make Revolutions. In the 20-year Soviet period now closing, Observer Lyons was in Russia during the period of six years which saw: the ending of the NEP (New Economic Policy) of Lenin; the expulsion of Trotsky; Stalin's economic regimentation of the Soviet Union by a policy of Five-Year Plans; and the ensuing industrialization and collectivization...