Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived amendment to include Spain in ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS; showed that clearly. A great many people have suffered agonies of apprehension over the news. It caused instant repercussions within the Labor Party and the trade unions, most of which had been so painfully won to pro-American, anti-Soviet collaboration. Even though the actual deed is now canceled, its effects will be felt for a long time. One aftereffect here will be a revival of the deep-seated assumption that Americans are unpredictable and therefore difficult fellows to live with...
Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...ostensible reason for such severities. They were decreed "in the interest of expediting travel." Then egg-bald Colonel Alexander Tulpanov indicated why the Russians were jittery. He thundered to a German audience: "Spies from the British and American zones come in masses to Berlin and from there into the Soviet zone to carry out economic, political and military espionage...
...week's end, the New York Times reported from Paris that Shostakovich had been dismissed from the Moscow Conservatory faculty, Khachaturian had been fired from his influential post in the Union of Soviet Composers...
Roughteling described the newly-formed organization's supporters as "Democrats, but not Party-line Democrats. Henry Wallace, for all his personal sincerity, has domestic Communist bashing, and the things he advocates would in practice benefit the Soviet Union...