Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Secretary of State George Marshall pointed out the hard facts. Such a revision, he declared, could only mean the disintegration of U.N. The Soviet bloc, the Arab states, perhaps the Far Eastern bloc would walk out, leaving the world divided into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem...
...killed world atom control? One after another, the delegates of seven nations-France, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, China, Colombia-pointed at Soviet Russia. Andrei Gromyko objected, claimed that all avenues to agreement had not been explored. This attitude was necessary for the sake of Moscow's propaganda claims that the West, not Russia, had sabotaged international agreement...
Delegates disagreed with Gromyko; they had been exhausting a series of Soviet proposals since A.E.C.'s inception. All Russian proposals had had two main ingredients : 1) the U.S. would have to stop making bombs and get rid of its stockpile at once; and 2) the control (or even the inspection) of Soviet atomic plants by a true international agency would be an interference with Soviet "sovereignty." The Russians wanted no one to have any secrets-except the Russians. Chided the majority-backed resolution, in the understatement of the year: "Secrecy in the field of atomic energy is not compatible...
...Control Council: this highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...
...would take a great deal more than the courage of hungry Berliners to keep Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled...