Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying Tactics. In Nanking with grandiose Oriental flourishes arrived Comrade Chin Pang-hsien, former Communist Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government whose forces are now merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops...
...world so definitely that for the present any rumors that they are not in full cooperation over Spain may be dismissed. It was clear that II Duce and Der Fuhrer were both bidding-and bidding jointly-for close and peaceful relations with Britain and France, to the exclusion of Soviet Russia and Leftist Spain. Assuming that Mussolini's state visit to Hitler cost $1,000,000-and the colossal splurge of decorations in German cities alone footed up to at least that-the whole show was a $1,000,000 Fascist way of saying to the Democracies, "You agree...
...recall of Turkey's Foreign Minister suggested a likely explanation for the wrath of Turkey's Dictator and the fall of Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council...
...again in the press comes the plea that the nation must achieve more unity, that Japan must present a united front to the world, and that at all costs the present conflict must not be allowed to exhaust her resources before the anticipated trial of strength with her neighbor, Soviet Russia...
...production at Russia's largest motor works, the Molotov Plant at Gorky. It is now nearly up to planned production, is turning out daily 400 trucks and 82 little sedans of 4-cylinder Ford type. But while this substantial success at the Molotov Plant may please and flatter Soviet Premier Molotov, for whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve at the Stalin Plant in Moscow. This makes not stubby little 4-cylinder sedans for small-shots of the Communist Party...