Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviet rulers think of war in all-inclusive terms [including] economic and political warfare. We, on the other hand, think of war only in terms of formal declaration, and then formal [fighting] by our own uniformed armed forces . . . The Soviets are gaining important victories in undeclared warfare, while we debate whether or not and when there will...
North Koreans have reasons for disliking Communism, Lee explains. The Russians stripped the section of plants, machinery, and ration-scarce rice. Also the Russians intend that Korea should not be independent, but belong to the Soviet Union, as one of its republics. Such a Kremlin policy was publicized by the present North Korean foreign minister...
...waited for action by the United Nations, we would have faced the possibility of a prolonged filibuster in the General Assembly or an outright veto in the Security Council. The Soviet delegation has often shown its readiness to use both of these tacties; it is doing so right now. Furthermore, recognition of the difficulty in obtaining the General Assembly's required two-thirds majority has prompted the British to introduce an enabling resolution so ambiguous, and at the same time so mild, that it actually would provide little further justification for MacArthur than the resolutions of the 25th and 27th...
...Assembly's steering committee adopted an agenda of 69 items, many of them perennials including: 1) U.N.'s condemnation of Franco Spain; 2) Communist threats to Greece; 3) Nationalist Chinese charges that Soviet Russia interfered in the Chinese civil war; 4) Western charges against Russian jamming of foreign broadcasts; 5) Russia's failure to repatriate German and Japanese prisoners of war. The steering committee also put on the agenda, without protest from Russia, Dean Acheson's proposals for strengthening the role of the Assembly( see above). Then it passed, without protest from the U.S., a Russian...
...regrettable that the entry into North Korea should not have been an official U.N. action, since Communist propagandists have claimed that the entire Korean campaign was American aggression. There are a billion Asians watching Korea to whom Soviet charges of "white imperialism" are not empty phrases...