Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shippers are not in business for their health. Finland is fighting for its life; some observers think, for more lives than its own. Last week U. S. shippers were sending to Finland's mortal enemy, Soviet Russia, copper, wheat, oil, other materials. They indicated that shipments would continue so long as the State Department allows (see p. 69). Meanwhile, last week, the Congress of the U. S. tepidly gestured its sympathy for beleaguered Finland...
...dead silence.] That American sympathy is 98% with the Finns in their effort to stave off invasion of their own soil by now is axiomatic. That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them to save their own lives is also axiomatic today. That the Soviet Union would, because of this, declare war on the United States is about the silliest thought that I ever heard advanced in the fifty-eight years of my life...
Berlin tried to laugh off the Golden Horn episode. "Things like that happen in Turkey," said a spokesman. "They usually are straightened out later." Meantime, Turkish spies reported that Russia, at whom Allied power in the Near East points most directly, was not so tranquil. Soviet engineers, advised by Germany's great fort-builder, Dr. Fritz Todt, are rushing fortifications in the Caucasus, using several hundred thousand workmen, to defend Russia's (and Germany's) oil supply. Already Russia has mined the approaches to all her big Black Sea ports...
...were based on the presence in the offices of the Byron Street League, a group sponsored by the minister, of the International League for Peace and Freedom. This organization, Moran alleges, sent representatives to a meeting held in Berlin in 1927 at which were also present official agents of Soviet Russia...
...acute sense of objectivity and refused to recognize the existence of a "moral cause" in the fight of a small republic for independence. That the American Youth Congress adjusts its attitude toward aggression to its feelings for the aggressor, is proof of its insincerity; that it favors the Soviet Union in a time in which--rightly or wrongly--the vast majority of the American people sympathizes with the Finnish cause, is proof of its unrepresentativeness...