Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia extends her hegemony around the Baltic and reaches back toward maritime power, Zhdanov gains in prestige. For Leningrad is Russia's No. 1 seaport-in area, the world's second largest-and headquarters of the Red Fleet. And if Russia's power spreads through Scandinavia to the Atlantic, Zhdanov will be the man who wields...
...Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with future shipments of Swedish...
...snowstorm swept over Finland as the week began. It grounded Russian aviation, slowed Russian mechanized attack, made the Russian infantry advance half blind. Behind the front the Russians were busy keeping their supply lines open, and this slowed down their advance. But still the Red Army came...
...digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working . . . under actual war conditions...
Northwest Passage (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grim reminder to pale faces with an atavistic itch to bag an Indian that potting "those red hellions up there" is all work and no play. So Rogers' Rangers (a band of buckskinned vigilantes) find out when (circa 1759) they put themselves in Spencer Tracy's calloused hands, shove off with him and Captain Ogden (Truman Bradley) in whaleboats for a little massacre of the Abenaki Indians...