Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
Last June, Dr. Paul led an anti-U.S. walkout of Soviet-zone .political leaders at an interzonal unity conference in Munich. Two months later his name headed the list of prominent Soviet-zone Germans backing a proclamation that damned the Marshall Plan. Then one day in September, he and his second wife headed for Potsdam. He was seen boarding a train at the Potsdam station...
...hiding place in Munich last week, Dr. Paul told a TIME correspondent that he could explain everything. When he was president of Thuringia, he said, the Russians had provided him with an "assistant" who put through Soviet policy in Paul's name. As for disrupting the Munich conference: "I was coerced to lead the walkout against my wishes." And his opposition to the Marshall Plan? "I am and always have been for the Marshall Plan. My name was affixed to the proclamation without my knowledge or consent...
After the Moscow conference of foreign ministers last spring, Dr. Paul said, the Russians tightened their stranglehold on German political leaders in the Soviet zone. He expected an even tougher policy after the London conference...
This move aroused mixed feelings in Washington, where it had long been expected. There was a certain relief that Soviet intentions regarding Greece, never more than half-veiled, were fully out in the open again. The Soviet catspaws in the Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, would no longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...