Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resignations of Hitler and Mussolini, collapse of Fascism, suicide of Stalin, and pardon for all Jews in concentration camps are the fantastic hopes aroused by Artur Isenberg '40 in his recently published pamphlet, "It Can't Happen There! A Political Impossibility...
...master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
Following up Mr. Chamberlain's unofficial hints, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare conjured up an even glossier picture of peace prospects. He saw five men-Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain-getting together to sit down at a disarmament conference table and "transform the whole history of the world."* Said Sir Samuel...
...outside world had been curious about Stalin's view of the German push to the East. Would he threaten Hitler? Would he talk about Russia's armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...