Word: tsarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in the village of Furmanka, Bessarabia, near Russia's Rumanian border, Marshal Timoshenko worked as a farm hand for wealthy landlords, first fought against the Germans as an Imperial draftee in 1915. He learned to operate American-made machine guns, but his Tsarist service ended when he was court-martialed and jailed for beating up an officer. Released after the Revolution, he rose to be a Red cavalry commander. Though the Marshal has recently been engaged in stamping out democratic procedures once favored by the Red Army, he got his own early promotions in the democratic manner...
Died. Catherine Rzewuska Kolb-Danvin, 83, onetime Princess Radziwill; in Manhattan. Daughter of a Tsarist Army officer, she married Prince Adam Charles Radziwill, before his death was secretary to the German Empress Frederick. In the U.S. she became a prolific and much-disputed writer, drew the wrath and denials of the Soviet Embassy in 1938 when she wrote in Liberty an "interview" with Joseph Stalin hinting at a Russian-German alliance...
...wide world. Anti-tank guns fired in batteries-perhaps for the camera. Howitzers fired in flat trajectory-perhaps for the same reason. Young men signed up for the Communist Party just before going into battle -without enthusiasm, obviously for the camera. The only naval units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn to use them, and to develop snap and guts for fighting...
...dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps, railroad bridges-any target that could be knocked out with a hit from a heavy bomb. In news dispatches the word "Stuka" (Nazi elision for Sturzkampf-flugzeug-dive fighter) took on the connotation of "Cossack" in Tsarist days...
...Dictator also revived in the Red Army & Navy the ranks of "general" and "admiral,' titles Bolsheviks have associated previously with Tsarist times. "The reform," said Pravda, "although belated, constitutes a link in the chain of measures strengthening discipline of the armed forces. . . . The titles of general and admiral reflect clearly that the [Army & Navy] commanders have full authority. . . . The results of the Finnish and Far Eastern campaigns established their authority among the Red Army and the masses of the Soviet people...