Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal Gottlieb stated: "It is our duty to disprove or to prove that idea--that we are tied to the Soviet apron strings. The present situation is intolerable on the Harvard campus where despite the former sympathetic reaction we received it is now a question of condemnation of the Soviet Union, disaffiliation with the American Student Union, or a rapid death. This situation is the same in innumerable American Student Union chapters throughout the country...
...program recognizes that powerful forces have already begun to drag us toward war on both the Eastern and Western fronts and specifically condemns all attempts to tie us to one side in the European struggle. Instead of jumping on the band wagon of those forces interested in an anti-Soviet war, the ASU set forth a progressive program for "a forward-moving democracy...
Last week, as it met at the University of Wisconsin, the Union knew that its resolutions would label it more clearly than any Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In the doghouse of official Soviet displeasure since 1936, when Joseph Stalin cracked down on modernistic music (TIME, Feb. 24, 1936), 33-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich climbed out again by writing this symphony in honor of the October Revolution's 20th anniversary (1937). The symphony, finest work to date by Soviet Russia's No. 1 TIME, January 8, 1940 composer, shows Joe Stalin to have been a sound music critic. In it, Composer Shostakovich leaves all clattering tricks behind, works fine melodies up into surging climaxes...
Ellis Island announced that General Walter Krivitsky, ex-Shmelka Ginsberg, onetime member of the Soviet Military Intelligence, who told tales all over the Saturday Evening Post and Dies Committee, had left the U. S. for parts undivulged. Reason: his visitor's permit for the U. S. would have expired in three days...