Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What worried the British more than usual this time was the suspicion that the Fakir, although a fanatical religious leader, has been "encouraged" to rebellion by atheistic Soviet Russia. This, the British knew, was no time to have serious trouble near the Khyber Pass. While they hunted the Fakir, they also started building good military roads right up to the Afghanistan border...
...earliest of the essays, "On the Study of Politics," an admirable confession of faith, goes back to 1926, and the latest, "The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794," is of 1938. The intervening studies, "Law and Justice in Soviet Russia," "The Judicial Function," "The Committee System in English Local Government," "Nationalism and the Future of Civilization," and "Mr. Justice Holmes," as well as the title essay, show the author's brilliant, liberal mind attacking a wide variety of problems. In only one case--the "Nationalism" speech--has he found it necessary to make some additions...
...carefully ignores the Finnish question, except to say that America should avoid it. There is no support of Russia's invasion, no condemnation of Finnish "attacks." All the emphasis in this manifesto is upon the dangers of American involvement, the very real imminence of an anti-Soviet crusade. Even though this emphasis may in this case spring from a blind attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity...
...make the new Russian military and naval domination more palatable to Lithuanians, the Soviet government...
...funniest comedies, one of the most original and ingratiating love stories, and one of the most intelligent pieces of social criticism ever to come out of Hollywood. Garbo laughs, Melvyn Douglas laughs, and the audience guffaws at the happy, hysterical carryings-on of a female Soviet envoy in Paris, in the days when a Frenchman pulled down the shades, but not because of an air raid. Ernst Lubitsch's direction has created several unforgettable scenes; the first kiss of the Parisian man-about-town and the desexed Russian agent. Ninotchka, with her first three glasses of champagne fizzing warmly underneath...