Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Trotsky, held in 13 sessions at Mexico City in March and April, at which Professor Dewey had presided. Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing at all, but to a packed house...
...engaged in trying to get at the truth as to the specific charges upon which Trotsky was convicted in the Moscow trials. . . . If Trotsky is guilty no condemnation can be too severe, and if he is innocent there is no way in which the existing regime in Soviet Russia can be acquitted of deliberate, systematic persecution and falsification. I might inquire if he [Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky] thought our hearings were a put-up job, why such pressure was brought to bear upon members of the defense committee and of the commission of inquiry to induce them to resign...
Pravda explained: "It is only necessary to understand that any commission of error or act, even a heavy crime, if admitted and not hidden, if brought to the knowledge of organs of Soviet power, constitutes much smaller guilt than a secret agreement with the enemy for fulfillment of espionage commissions...
...SOVIETS-Albert Rhys Williams- Harcourt, Brace ($3). To 88 most mauled questions on Soviet Russia, this 554-page volume supplies "constructive" ready answers, condensed biographies of Lenin and Stalin, an impartial reading list of 450 books in English...
...even a distinguished visitor has to toe. He had referred to Russia's destiny, was told he would have to say "glorious destiny." He had referred to a great monarch, was told he would have to delete "great." A longtime champion of homosexuals, he was shocked at the Soviet law condemning homosexuals to five years' deportation...