Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obscure, like nearly all the new crop of henchmen and henchwomen with whom Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin is gradually filling the Russian Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more...
...diplomat of the old, punctilious school is M. Jean Herbette, Ambassador of the French Republic to the Soviet Union, dean of the Moscow diplomatic corps, veteran of a thousand manicures, husband of a onetime danseuse of the Paris opera. One morning, fortnight ago, his valet patted him into diplomatic uniform, adjusted the cross of the Legion of Honor on his chest, sprayed just the merest squeeze of perfume. His secretary handed him a crisp official envelope blazoned with the eagles of Rumania. His military chauffeur, his gold-frogged footman, his glistening, beak-nosed Renault limousine completed the splendiferous translation...
Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy...
Isvestia, official news organ of the Soviet Government, saw the note as "adding insult to Stimson's meddling injury," denounced the "cynical insolence of the Rumanian Government, whose troops and gendarmes still occupy our Province of Bessarabia." Happily for Rumanians, they were prevented by strict censorship from hearing that they are "third-class," from knowing that their eight-year-old King Mihai has been grossly insulted, his honor sullied, his puissance mocked...
Good-hearted Russians grinned when Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Department of the Interior, skirting Statesman Stimson's official position of not recognizing Moscow, appealed personally, unofficially to the Soviet Government for help for U. S. Flyer Carl Ben Eielson, lost along the coast of Siberia, spurred Alaska's acting Governor Karl Theile to send frantic appeals to two Soviet ships in Siberian waters. Russians were aware that already blunt Senator Borah had cabled for aid directly to Soviet Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov...