Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...could not but explore other possibilities of insuring peace and eliminating the danger of war between Germany and the U. S. S. R. If the British and French Governments refused to reckon with this, that is their affair. It is our duty to think of the interests of the Soviet people, the interests of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...ringed circus last week. In the Baltic the Red Fleet finished intensive war games, perhaps designed to help persuade Finland to let the U. S. S. R. fortify the Åland Islands, which would weaken Germany in the Baltic. In the Far East, against Japan, Russia needs more than Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang for security against Japan; she needs a strong China, which Britain would also like to see. And across the Himalayas lies India, all but cut off from the mother country and having her troubles last week. Russia would not like Japan or Germany to take...
Dozens of prophets predicted the Nazi-Soviet Pact. But so successful was Soviet propaganda in selling Communism as the great & good friend of its archenemy, democracy, that nobody listened. Among these unheeded Cassandras was Henry C. Wolfe, small, bespectacled foreign correspondent and lecturer, who had flitted around Russia and Central Europe, first for the Hoover Relief, then for the Columbus Dispatch. He had also written The German Octopus, prophesying that the Nazis would soon be doing what they were soon doing...
Last week Prophet Wolfe undertook his biggest assignment. He well knew that many a U. S. citizen tenaciously believes more evident untruths about Soviet Russia than he would ever permit himself to believe about any other government in the world. Most dangerous untruth at this time: that the hard-boiled bosses in the Kremlin are somehow longing to aid the democracies which they had been busily undermining for some 20 years...
Author Wolfe proposed to make U. S. readers see cynical, self-interested Soviet foreign policy not as it seems to Nazi-menaced democrats seeking anywhere for an ally, not as it appears in the radical and liberal press, but as it is in reality. He proposed to record the gulps by which Soviet imperialism swallowed Georgia, Outer Mongolia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and parts of Finland...