Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Exposed Flank. Most serious obstacle to any all-out move by Japan is the exposure of her northern flank to an attack by Soviet Russia. Russia has tested this flank several times since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese...
...Soviet must now concentrate on European operations and Japan must make its southward policy a more positive step," said Hochi. "Therein lies the full possibility of adjusting Japanese-Soviet relations. Japan's traditional strategy of defending the south and advancing in the north must be reversed. Now is the time for a passive policy in the north and a vigorous advance southward...
With genial sophistry the new Ambassador explained how he will try to overcome the two obstacles to friendship. "I will simply say: 'Tovarish Molotov,' and start getting acquainted with the Soviet big shots," said he. "I have no use for Communists but I like Russians. They are pure-minded and simple...
...Russian Press Bureau clamped down with a bang, suppressing even such messages as "Censor will not allow this story to be sent." All unfavorable facts about Russia were promptly deleted from press wires, together with any comments or interpretation, any qualifying clauses crediting hypotheses to "the Soviet point of view." Even excerpts from the local press were erased if they hinted that all was not milk & honey in Russia. On top of this, official releases were often delayed until the censor's office had closed, giving the official Tass version an exclusive world release...
...psychological counsel in hiring workers is not confined to employers, said Psychologist Morris S. Viteles of the University of Pennsylvania. "Labor leaders resist likewise, because they stand for the group protection of its inferior members, which is the tradition of organized labor throughout the world, except perhaps in the Soviet Union. There, under the direction of a so-called proletarian dictatorship, inefficiency is made synonymous with political crime and the trade unions have learned to withdraw from their inferior members the protection still accorded to them by labor unions in capitalistic countries...