Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...RUST-Acute demonstration of Soviet woes...
...trip of nearly 2,000 miles through primitive country. Last week Charles Calmer Hart, lately promoted from U. S. Minister to Albania to be U. S. Minister to Persia, was making this journey. But instead of traveling over long roundabout routes, he was shortcutting from post to post across Soviet Russia. The significance of his trip lay in the fact that he was the first U. S. diplomat to enter Russia officially in a dozen years...
Even the Socialists had no criticism of General Weygand's ability. Irked at sneering suggestions that he was a mere "Yes Man" to the Marshal, in 1920 he begged and obtained a chance to go to Poland, direct Poland's defense against Soviet invasion. On his arrival Russian troops were only 12½ mi. from Warsaw. Five months later the last defeated Soviet troops were in full retreat. In Paris, proud as a father, Marshal Foch gleefully applauded his success...
Since in any country rich farmers are always the most conservative not to say reactionary class, it has been obvious from the first that they must be destroyed in Soviet Russia, but recently this has not seemed practical. "It is now," said Stalin with quiet menace last week. He launched into an argument which may be summarized thus: 1) Even two years ago the Government was largely dependent upon the kulak to produce what is called the "export surplus" of Russian grain. It is this surplus which the Government sells abroad, using the gold received in exchange to buy foreign...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...