Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From somewhere in Middle Europe came a fable that might have been lifted from the unpublished works of Aesop the Slave. A tiny rabbit was running out of the Soviet Union as though his life depended on it. He was stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They...
...know that on the Anglo-Saxon side the idea is that this Reich will become an element which can be opposed to Soviet Russia. Maybe; but maybe...
Americans must care, not because they hanker to be loved by all the world (as some probers of the American psyche have suggested), but because the U.S. is engaged in a crucial contest with Soviet Russia for the world's faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that...
...Oksana Stepanovna Kasenlcina, now feeling "very, very good" and able to walk a little with a cane, checked out of a Manhattan hospital (in a wheel chair) 100 days after her leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud...
...Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy) is 840,000 in the U.S., British and French zones...