Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly two years before French workers won the 40-hr. week under Socialist Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what...
...happens that the only Japanese general of prominence who has been permitted to travel in the Soviet Union for some time is Major General Masaharu...
Homma who escorted Prince Chichibu at the Coronation, of George VI. Last week he arrived "disappointed in the Soviet Union generally. . . . Japan need have no fear of the Red Army. . . . The executions of several of its chiefs have seriously weakened it. ... The Red Army in fact is on the verge of collapse. It has been vastly over-rated...
...Moscow excited correspondents filed dispatches recalling Stalin's words of several months ago: "The Soviet Union does not want an inch of anyone's territory and will not yield an inch...
...Many an issue is so hopeless that market quotations are no longer available. In listing a 6% issue of the State of Coahuila (Mexico) the council was unable to learn the original offering price or the purpose for which it was sold. Yet Russian Imperial bonds repudiated by the Soviet 20 years ago, are still active on the New York Curb Exchange. Last week's price...