Word: aggression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
...World War II approached, Russia withdrew into an isolation even deeper than the previous one. Maxim Litvinoff resigned from the Foreign Commissariat and his successor made the marriage of convenience with Germany. Russia began to aggress, Britain and the U.S. to object. To Russia, Britain and the U.S. became known as the imperialist nations...
...appeared to parallel those of Great Britain. Hard-pressed Britain is no longer in a position to turn up her nose at the Soviets. And Russia, too weak to stand alone, must make treaties and alliances for protection. Unlike the pacific U. S., she is ready to fight-or aggress first-to halt aggression that seems ultimately aimed at her. Though Russia might like to run the world, for a long time to come she will settle for simple security. But so long as capitalist countries fear Communism, they will suspect Russia of sinister intentions. And so long...
Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...