Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...liberalization, Paris papers went to town on the Allies' subject-of-the-week: What About Russia? In striking contrast to the ostrich-like actions of the British Press, the Liberal L'Oeuvre debated openly with Rightist papers whether France should break with "Germany's friend" the Soviet Union while they were at the same time urging closer ties with "Germany's friend" Fascist Italy. It looked to L'Oeuvre as though the French Rightists were picking their foreign friends and foes along suspiciously ideological lines. Socialist ex-Premier Leon Blum's Le Populaire said...
...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...
That Joseph Stalin would ever go for a mouse seemed unlikely, but Mr. Williams reported that, in the early days of the Finnish War, plain, studious Soviet Aviatrix Marina Raskova began to be seen riding regularly in the Dictator's official car to the Kremlin and also to his country villa. Friends of neat Miss Raskova, who parts her shiny black hair in the middle and draws it back along her skull into a bun at the rear, confirmed to Secretary Williams before 'he left Moscow that she now seems to be accepted by everyone around the Dictator...
Muscovites, of course, read nothing of their Dictator's amours, but Miss Raskova has blossomed in the Soviet press as a frequent writer on the thrills of flying. She effusively described how she felt soar ing over Moscow during the May Day celebration of 1935: "We could see everything ! . . . We knew of surety that there [on the Red Square], surrounded by his friends and comrades, was Stalin, and we were proud in the realization that at that moment, raising his head high, he was gazing at us. Perhaps he was even waving his hand...
...Sept. 24, 1938 several Soviet air women took off from Moscow with Miss Raskova as their navigator, made a beeline of 3,715 miles to crack up in wild Kerbi swamplands for a new international women's distance record. On urgent orders from Moscow 50 planes and large Soviet land forces searched nine days for the aviatrixes. Afterwards Miss Raskova recalled that she subsisted on wild berries. Later Dictator Stalin, officially welcoming the distance fliers to the Kremlin, sternly observed that more care must be taken not to risk the lives of such heroic women as Miss Raskova...