Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...These are some of the things which we feel that the Soviet leaders could do . . ." he said. "They are not things that go to the depths of the moral conflict. They are not things that promise the Kingdom of Heaven. The United States is ready, as it has been and always will be, to cooperate in genuine efforts to find peaceful settlements. Our attitude is not inflexible, our opinions are not frozen, our positions are not and will not be obstacles to peace. But it takes more than one to cooperate . . . We are always ready to discuss, to negotiate...
...Sign peace treaties with the defeated enemies of World War II, thus give Germany, Japan and Austria a chance to set up free governments, "untouched by tyranny." "Nor can we accept a settlement which would make [them] satellites of the Soviet Union. The experience in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria has been [a] . . . shocking betrayal of the solemn pledges by the wartime allies...
...peoples of the Eastern European satellites vote freely for "truly independent national regimes . . . We cannot believe that such a situation would be really incompatible with the security of the Soviet Union . . . Nothing would so alter the international climate as the holding of elections in the satellite states in which the true will of the people could be expressed...
...Drop the policy of "walkout and boycott" of the United Nations, and show some respect for the will of the majority. "Let the Soviet Union put forward . . . genuine proposals conducive to the work of peace . . . They will then doubtless have a majority with them [and] we will be pleased to be a member of it ourselves...
...Work realistically toward limitation of armaments in general, and outlawing of atomic weapons in particular, by accepting the principle of control and inspection by international authority. "We believe that an authority could be established which would not be controlled or subject to control by either ourselves or the Soviet Union...