Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great Stalin-Glory, Our Strength-Stalin, and You Are Our Hero. The Bulgarian city of Varna on the Black Sea reported that it had changed its name to Stalin. The Czechs sent word that they had renamed their highest mountain, Gerlachovka (8,737 ft.), Mt. Stalin...
Russian naval strength is growing. Western military men have known for some time that Russian shipyards were busily building a big fleet of German-designed "Schnorkel" submarines-fast, long-range craft which are almost proof against currently known detection devices. This week, in its newly published 1949-50 edition, Britain's authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships reported that Russia already has at least 360, and possibly 460, of such submarines in service. Originally Russia expected to have 1,000 Schnorkels in operation at the end of 1951. Jane's doubts Russia's capacity to build fast...
...Kremlin last week, the peasant who had become master of 450 million Chinese met with the peasant who was master of 200 million Russians...
...closely watching the evolution of the Moscow-Peking Axis (TIME, Dec. 19)-and who had spent a lot of time wondering whether or not Mao might turn Tito and break with Moscow-could only speculate about the consequences of the Moscow meeting. All the West knew with certainty last week was that the two most successful living Communists, masters of almost a quarter of the earth's land and more than a quarter of its people, had met, and that both were sworn enemies of the West. That was quite enough to know for the time being...
...This week Washington, London and Ottawa announced that the vast standardization project had been formally approved. "Tripartite arrangements," said the announcement, "will insure that in time of necessity there will be no material or technical obstacles to full co-operation among the armed forces concerned." Successful standardization, in the framework of the North Atlantic pact, might prove one of the most momentous steps in Western military history...