Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week biggest news was the fact that Germany did not invade Great Britain. Involved in this news was the apparently insignificant circumstance that, years ago, a proletarian Russian named Alexander Shkvartsev took the trouble to learn German. Little Alexander Shkvartsev is the new Soviet Ambassador to Germany...
...Allies tried intervention to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. At the Genoa Conference of 1922 Russia was offered money and aid only if capitalism were restored. Russia was excluded from Locarno in 1925. Things got so bad by 1927 that London police raided the offices of Arco Ltd., the Soviet Trading Company, finding nothing, and Russia and Great Britain finally broke off all diplomatic relations...
Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...
...unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk, the division of his life between teaching and research, and the sound of his own voice. He profoundly admired Herbert Hoover for his relief work-"It is too bad he became only a President later on." He bitterly despised Soviet Russia: ". . . The governing mob cared little in those days [1923] about a hundred thousand lives more or less...
...Speed with which Soviet forces adapted themselves to snow-fighting...