Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Havas, Stalin also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
From the world's highest-placed ecclesiastical friend of Soviet Russia, white-thatched Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, nothing was heard last week about Finland. Two months ago he was still lolling in the club car behind the locomotive of history. Said the gaitered dean then: ". . . Communism has recovered the essential form ' of the real belief in God, which organized Christianity, as it is now, has so largely lost...
Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
...Browder warmed up to his assault on capitalism, his audience listened politely, interrupted with only an occasional "Hear! Hear!" or "Prove it!" When Comrade Browder declared that the Soviet Union was determined to maintain peace, the audience laughed loudly. But Mr. Browder got his biggest hand when he asserted that if the U. S. copied the Russian system it could by 1950 give every U. S. man, woman and child a bonus...