Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was 53-year-old Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had finally persuaded the President to let him quit as ambassador to Moscow. Weary and homesick after three years of war duty as chief of staff to Ike Eisenhower, and three years of cold-war duty near the Kremlin, "Beedle" Smith will move to New York's Governor's Island as commander of the First Army. The Moscow job, said the White House, was wide open...
...last week to be present in Washington at the solemn signing of the North Atlantic pact. Before he left Britain, speaking in the House of Commons, Bevin reviewed the position of the Western community in its struggle with world Communism. His incautious conclusion: in Western Europe, at least, the cold war has been...
Said Bevin: "It has been suggested to us that we have been losing this cold war . . . that time is running out, that we have been beaten back . . . Just over two years ago when the cold war really began to get hot, it looked as if Russia would succeed in forcing us back in Germany. It looked as if Italy would be completely disrupted. In France, facing the tremendous strikes and maneuvers of the Communist Party, it looked as if the government might fall and chaos might ensue. The real purpose behind it all was to drive a wedge between Western...
...Soviet woman, despite her sturdiness and resistance to hunger, cold, and suffering, cannot thrive on the misery that is her lot," said Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped from a third floor window last summer rather than go back to the U.S.S.R. Russian women, she said, "age fast and die prematurely...
...Republican leader called "the Fuhrer principle of Hitler's system, the centralism of Stalin's system, and the whole approach of ruthless domination and cold blooded liquidation of those with whom they differed, of the same cloth...