Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Democracy...
Reflecting the Council's desire to iron out the present tense international situation entirely through the machinery of the UN, the cable said in part: "The United Nations-Council of Harvard views with deep apprehension the discordant relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the consequent effects upon the efforts of the United Nations to make the peace secure. . . . May we take the liberty of urging that you meet with President Truman and Trygve Lie in the hope that the mediation of international authority may best promote the resolution of current difficulties...
President Ospina Pérez went on the radio, denounced Gaitán's assassination, blamed the Communists for the upheaval that had stained Colombia's longtime reputation for orderly and democratic rule. This week, as a postscript, Colombia broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...news agency, Benton had a file of its conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...
Wifely curiosity soon got the better of Harriet. One night, she opened Desmond's briefcase and found a manuscript signed with his name. "With reference to Bureaux Instruction," she read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...