Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general in New York City.* The U.S. was going to send him home; it could no longer tolerate the kind of hooliganism that had marked his conduct of the Kasenkina affair (TIME, Aug. 16-23). For a week the world's spotlight was fixed on Lomakin, a typical Soviet public servant...
...Gross Violation." The State Department note rejected three separate Soviet government complaints, which were based, said the note, on misinformation supplied by Jake. "Consul General Lomakin's conduct constitutes an abuse of the prerogatives of his position and a gross violation [of diplomatic standards] ... It is requested that he leave the United States...
...Long." The Potsdamer Platz was the vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The week's pattern is continuing Soviet aggressiveness and continuing Western wariness. Observing the two lines of conduct is like watching a pair of dancers, one of whom is doing a delicate minuet while the other hurls himself into a hot apache number...
...hours later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...