Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...through the eight-day trial, Chemist Abe Brothman and his coconspirator, Miriam Moskowitz, sat mute and unblinking as dummies in a waxworks. They flatly refused to testify in their own defense, even after Soviet Spy Harry Gold took the stand to testify that Brothman had passed scores of defense blueprints to him, and that Brothman and his assistant, Miss Moskowitz, had gleefully helped Gold concoct a phony story for a 1947 grand jury investigation (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week in Manhattan district court, a federal jury found the two guilty of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...arms-to-Egypt incident had somehow revived that group of Labor M.P.s which all along has more or less secretly opposed Bevin's firm anti-Soviet policy. A few of these M.P.s are Communist fellow travelers, more of them are anti-American, or isolationist, or inspired by fear that the U.S. alliance will sooner or later drag Britain into a hot war with China and Russia. Said one Labor rebel last week: "I've been Bevin's admirer for years. But now it's different. A bull was never meant to walk a tightrope...
Berlin's RIAS (Radio in American Sector) last week released a letter by a Soviet sector listener describing an "entertainment" for parents by East Zone schoolchildren...
Scene II was Korea. Two wounded boys "strutted about the stage explaining to the children that American gangsters had attacked the Korean people, to acquire their natural resources . . . Then the plane flew to the Soviet paradise. The children were received by Soviet youth with flags and fanfare . . . told they should travel around the country as guests and dear friends, to see for themselves the great progress...
...northeastern Holland, hard by the German frontier, looks like any other scrubbed Dutch town; but it is not. Every year Finsterwolde sends a wire addressed to the Kremlin offering Joseph Stalin birthday congratulations. And Finsterwolde's town fathers have officially made known that should Soviet forces cross the Dutch border, the town would "welcome the Red troops with open arms...