Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Four U. S. Congressmen were observed last week peering into two children's camps on the Hudson River. They were four-fifths of the special House committee led by New York's big young Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr., authorized to discover evidence of revolutionary activities by the Russian Soviet in the U. S. Witnesses at their Manhattan hearings had told them they might see Red flags, hear juvenile profanity at the Communist-organized children's summer camps (TIME, July 28). Many a young Red nose was thumbed at them, many a hiss and boo was heard, but there were...
...warnings of Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York police chief (TIME, May 12) and of Pope Pius XI against Soviet activities in the U. S., there were added last week, in a release by the National Civic Federation, a warning and an exhortation from no less a personage than Elder Statesman Elihu Root, onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State. Said...
...Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) should enter the E. U. on "equal terms" with the victor states? that is, these nations should be permitted to re-establish their armies. This reply ranged Italy beside Germany in seeking revision of the Peace Treaties?a policy anathema to France. In Moscow the Soviet newsorgan Pravda, while appreciative of Italy's attempt to include Russia in the E. U., declared that, in view of the program of revision which Germany and Italy are seeking to force upon unwilling France, "the Briand scheme may be considered exploded...
Said crisp Dr. Kingsbury: "The incentive which fires the Soviet worker is not desire for Money but desire for Power. Power and influence accrue to a worker, man or woman, who holds a managerial position, such as director of a textile factory or designer of bridges and so forth. Graft and corruption, if existent, are certainly well hidden. The most stringent punishments are meted out to the dishonest by the Soviet Government...
...During the last spring, heated argument developed in foreign countries as to whether religion was or was not being persecuted in the Soviet union," observed a bulletin issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week. "The answer to the question depends upon how the word 'persecution' is to be defined. Certainly there has been nothing in Russia that could be fairly compared with the persecutions of the early Christians. . . . There has never been any prohibition of the practice of any form of religious faith in the Soviet union; and every Sunday hundreds...