Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, conservative in his estimate of success. This "unprecedented endeavor," he said, would be "neither sure nor easy . . . against the avowed determination of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party to oppose and sabotage it at every turn." But, in his now familiar phrase, it represented the "calculated risk." He calculated that it would require every penny of the $6.8 billion that he and President Truman had set as the cost of the program for the first 15 months...
...disciplined. Said Togliatti: "We failed to renew the whole Italian social structure. . . . This error . . . forced us on the defensive when we should have been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France, Spain] to form a spearhead against the Soviet Union. The Vatican, which claims to have been anti-capitalist even in evangelical times, when, to my knowledge, capitalism hadn't begun to exist, is now a strenuous defender of American imperialism. The Pope is hand in glove with Protestant Freemason Truman. Our immediate objective is to prevent formation...
...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
...clear, unequivocal answer to Soviet attempts to scuttle the European Recovery Program. For the 40 million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
...Students who take her class," concluded the Tribune, "will emerge from it with some queer opinions of Soviet policies, and probably little knowledge of the facts of communism...