Word: cunningness
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The change from Stalin to Malenkov & Co. might bring changes of tactics, a more pressing threat or a more cunning effort to lull the anti-Communist world to sleep. But the Kremlin and all that it stood for endured, essentially unchanged in its meaning and its menace.
Though Eden made it clear that Britain did not intend to abandon diplomatic recognition of Mao Tse-tung, the new agreement on trade with Red China removed one of the most dangerous conflicts between British and American Far Eastern policy. Even those Americans who still hold to an almost superstitious...
Calm & Cunning. Judgments on Stalin varied astonishingly among those free to assess him-outsiders who saw him compatriots who broke with him. U.S. Businessman Donald Nelson, caught up in the heady transactions of Lend-Lease, found Stalin "a regular fellow, and a very friendly sort of fellow, in fact." "He...
A habitual doodler who doodled wolves, girls, castles and the word "Lenin" on paper pads during conferences and interviews, Stalin gave the impression of impassive calm. But a Tito aide once saw him angry: "He trembled with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and...
He chose doers, despising the contemplative and the idealistic-the kind who in other nations joined the party in the credulous '30s. Stalin was an administrative genius-with the advantage of being able to concede his errors and bury his mistakes. It took skill to pick devoted men, to...