Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understood that the Russians would some day be able to make the bomb. That was one reason why the U.S. had offered free exchange of all information, provided only that subscribing nations submit to international inspection and control of atomic activities. That offer still stood, but the Soviet leaders had repeatedly refused it. Many of Molotov's hearers had not been, told this, but the U.S. editors acted as if their ears, too, were muffed by iron curtains...
...Manchester Guardian accurately appraised such Soviet statements. It said: "They would like us to shake in our shoes. But if we remember some of the other things that are happening, we may feel that there is more weakness than strength in this aggressive tone...
...forced her to go underground, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Communists. On one of her underground visits to Switzerland she met and married Marcel Pauker, a Rumanian Communist engineer and journalist. Together they spent the late 1920s in the U.S., working for the Soviet trading agency Amtorg...
...state." On that occasion a policeman shot and wounded her ; the bullet is still in her leg. She had served five years of a ten-year sentence when, in a 1941 exchange of prisoners between Russia and Rumania, Moscow asked for and got Ana; she became a Soviet citizen. About that time her husband disappeared. (His probable fate: execution as a Trotskyite after Ana turned him in to Soviet police.) Their son, Vlad, is in the Rumanian Army. Daughters Tanya and Marie are in school...
France Spain received a diplomatic blow as the United Nations Political Committee reaffirmed a Soviet-sponsored resolution that calls on U.N. members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid and for the Security Council to act if Spain did not establish a democratic regime in a "reasonable" time...