Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Lords at last decided to face facts and repeal the "Act to enlarge the Trade to Russia." The gesture was not calculated to irritate Joe Stalin. The act was merely one of 766 dusty items in Britain's parliamentary attic too old to include in a new edition of revised statutes. It was passed in 1699 to loosen the monopoly of members of the old "Muscovy Company." Other heirlooms lost in the tidying...
...Authority to meet and negotiate a world peace settlement with Stalin...
...wall hung a picture of Stalin. With passionate feeling and extravagant gesture a schoolboy declaimed an epic poem in praise of Tovarish Stalin. This happened in Washington...
...this schoolroom in a converted rooming house in the capital, Stalin's praises were still being sung last week-but not for long. The Kremlin had ordered the Soviet School closed, and the 45 schoolkids (children of Russian diplomats and clerks) returned to Russia. In New York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...
...Capitalist System." All the other powers protested hotly. Said the U.S. delegate (jovial, white-haired Harry R. Wyman of the Phoenix Junior College in Arizona): "It isn't our purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist and the Capitalist systems can and must exist together . . . I will now attempt to change the wording." His final title, to which the others assented: "The Dangers of Crises in the Capitalist Economy...