Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
Toward New Horizons. "Whether we actually get another Soviet assault on Berlin depends on how much the West rearms, politically, morally and militarily, and on how much it moves on to Berlin. If it does that, it can demand from the Soviets: 'We want free elections in all Germany. We want free access to Berlin...
...provocation" by U.S. "warmongers." In Moscow the next day, Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base of Port Arthur...
Austin's earlier report to U.N. made it clear that the twin-engined Soviet bomber had not so refrained: it had "passed over a screening ship and continued toward the center of the United Nations formation in a hostile manner. The bomber opened fire upon a United Nations fighter patrol, which returned its fire and shot it down." A U.N. destroyer fished the airman from the sea. His identification papers showed that he was Lieut. Gennady Vasilievich Mishin, serial number 25054. He was buried at Pusan...
This week the even more vituperative Vishinsky was on his way to head the Soviet delegation to the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that opens at Flushing Meadows on Sept. 19. In the Assembly, Soviet slander will be even less effective than in the Security Council. There, the Russians do not have the veto...