Word: expansionist
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Tactical Maneuver. Even most skeptics believed that Stalin really wanted peace, for the time being. But few believed that his assurances marked more than a tactical change in Russia's expansionist drive. In their opinion, the statement was designed...
...Ministers will hold the first high-level discussion of policy on Germany since the ill-fated Potsdam conference. By then the democracies may have learned that their cause is by no means lost in Europe, that panic fear of Russia is unjustified; and the Russians may have learned that expansionist maneuvering is not the path to their cherished goal of "security...
...mashina as a result of a telephonic bawling out from Moscow for being too soft at the July 4 night session. The Russians obviously wanted to delay the Peace Conference as long as possible because they knew that an overwhelming majority of the 21 nations opposed Russia's expansionist program. If the Conference had to be held, Russia wanted to tie it up with rules that would insure Russia against majority rule on the treaties...
...been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia's expansionist drive, but by finding a point at which the forces could rest with some mutual security and confidence...
...line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such a reincarnation, she will have to find another reason for expansion that does not sound like Hitler's slogans. If Russia accepts, it should end her suspicions about...