Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse thought they were-and should be-bound together. Said he: "I am going to vote for the pact enthusiastically, because I believe it carries along with it the . . . military implementation for stopping Joe Stalin in his tracks . . . Unless that is ... the meaning of the pact, it is already a museum piece for Stalin's repository of diplomatic scalps...
...coast and made a fortune. In recent years, he had also learned what it meant to be unpopular-for being a party-liner and saying he preferred Russia to the U.S. Only last week a fellow Negro denounced him before a congressional committee as a would-be "black Stalin...
...Joseph Stalin once asked a scornful question: "How many divisions has the Pope?" An answer was prepared last week. Pius XII decreed excommunication for Roman Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism." Those Catholics who "enlist in or show favor to the Communist Party" and those who "publish, read or disseminate" Communist publications would be denied the sacraments...
Lynx-eyed watchers for signs & portents from the Soviet Union quickly noted that this order of precedence did not jibe with the photograph of the scene; in the picture, Voroshilov, not Malenkov, stood closest to Stalin. The discrepancy gave rise to subtle speculations: Voroshilov merely had the place of honor because it was he who was about to accompany the body to Sofia, but the fact that Pravda mentioned Malenkov's name first meant that the 47-year-old boss of the Communist Party organization was on his way up. Some watchers from afar were also disturbed...
After twelve years of Hitler's Gestapo and four years of Stalin's MVD, the long-suffering people of Germany's Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...