Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sending Finland a few millions of dollars ? The forces of the Soviet could hardly be checked by so insignificant...
Unlike those speeches, unlike the lucid anti-New Deal arguments of Senator Taft, are Candidate Dewey's current blasts. Nor has he raged intemperately on foreign affairs. He has expressed approval of traditional U. S. foreign policy (except for the New Deal "blunder"' of recognizing Soviet Russia), esteems seasoned well-respected ex-Secretary of State Henry Stimson, who in turn thinks highly of Secretary of State Hull. Dewey's slugs at the New Deal are sudden, savage, singleminded, are concentrated mostly on the New Deal's failure to put the unemployed to work. Single-minded...
What will probably prevent this petty war is fear of a bigger one. Both countries are courting neutral Italy assiduously, as a sort of insurance. And Italy, herself looking for insurance, wants Rumania and Hungary to get together in a solid anti-Soviet Balkan bloc. Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion...
...tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia had risked its morale, its prestige and perhaps its future on a frontal assault against Finland's Mannerheim Line...
...main reason for rejecting the resolution during the Convention was the fear of compromising our neutrality," Gottlieb stated. "The amendment as it now appears expressly states our conviction to keep America at peace, despite condemnation of Soviet aggression...