Word: sovietizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Second Finland. The question is whether the Soviets will limit their at tacks on West Germany to words. Almost all Western military experts, including most West German commanders, feel that the Soviet Union would not risk starting World War III by actually invading the Federal Republic. Nonetheless, ordinary West Germans cannot help feeling physically threatened by the Red Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around...
...Gaulle's hosts were stung by his failure to join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit...
Little in Common. That has not yet happened in Czechoslovakia. Last week Party Boss Dubcek and his colleagues on the Presidium were still putting up resistance to Soviet demands for a list of Czechoslovaks whom the Russians consider "counter-revolutionaries...
...Pushkin Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...
...Navy commanders are only too keenly aware of the growing strength and aggressiveness of the Soviet navy. Russian ships shadow every NATO maneuver, break into allied formations, and show the red flag in the world's most sensitive trouble spots. Last week the Pentagon received reassurance of sorts. According to the 1968-69 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships, the longtime civilian authority on all the world's navies, "Soviet maritime strategy is defensive or containing rather than provoking or aggressive...