Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news, even better than President Roosevelt's Chicago speech, in the opinion of many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China...
Their defense was brutally simple. They were flyers of the Red Army, had embarked on a Soviet ship at Odessa "under orders," not knowing where they were being sent or for what...
...little fighting as possible. But while German volunteers are generally 18 to 20 years old, completing their own army training under actual battle conditions, Russian "volunteers" are fortyish, of the generation of Old Bolsheviks now being liquidated by Steel Man Stalin. Recently Russia has sent no more Soviet aviators, but gladly trains Spanish Leftist cadets on Russian soil...
...Queen Wilhelmina's representative, who promptly resigned. Thus, smart Vilhelms Munters of Latvia came to be chosen, has presided in recent weeks with notable skill and tact over a League committee whose British and French members wanted Japan to be let as nearly alone as possible, while its Soviet and Chinese members tried to egg the League into cracking down as hard as possible on Tokyo...
...weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard for the first time in America at tonight's performance...