Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gulping, "Quite a thorough discussion," Stassen rushed off from his two-hour chat to cable the worst to Washington. Next day Gromyko agreed to "consider" a few changes in the latest Russian plan, but Western diplomats interpreted this as a maneuver to fasten the propaganda blame on the U.S. should talks...
...There a softly muted green-"Eisenhower green"-strikes a note of easy relaxation: grey-green carpets on the floors, rich green gabardine on the walls, white vinyl plastic on the ceiling. In the spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts into two big green swivel chairs, gazing out at blue sky through green-curtained windows. At night they may retire on the two wide green divans that convert into luxurious three-quarter beds, falling asleep to the strains of recorded symphonic music...
...Fastening Failure. Faced with such a sterile situation, the duty of diplomats is to fasten the failure on the other party. The West entered the lists firmly united on a basic proposition: no European security pact, or even discussion of it, without a settlement of the reunification of Ger many. Molotov arrived with the paraphernalia he had peddled in July: "European security" came first, German reunification was "subordinate," and there was no hurry about it anyway...
...potentialities for abuse in such a system are obvious. Security conscious officials can virtually cut off the flow of information to the public if they apply their new claims of authority arbitrarily. Over-zealous bureaucrats may be tempted to fasten the "strategic information" label on material of any kind, no matter how innocuous. And certain members of the Administration have long shown a distressing tendency to seek political advantage through selective leaks to the press; the release of the Yalta documents was only the most spectacular example. Under the new view of public information, the sphere of such political intriguing...
...Yalta agreement gave Stalin no territory his armies did not take. But it gave him what he wanted. So shocked were the Poles at the action of the Western powers that the Communists were able to fasten their grip on Poland without meeting dangerous resistance. By now, most of the original Russian stooges have been liquidated, and Poland (pop. 26,200,000) is run by Marshal Rokossovsky of the Red army...