Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zhukov?" Answered Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Georgy is a very decent fellow. [If he were] left on his own, I believe I could do business with him." Last week, when Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was named Defense Minister of the Soviet Union, the question whether the old friendship would affect U.S.-Soviet relations became the subject of international speculation...
...Enormous Bear Rug. Dwight Eisenhower and Georgy Zhukov became friends in the early days of Allied control in Berlin. Their friendship did not indicate sympathy on the part of either man for the political system represented by the other: it was, in President Eisenhower's words, "personal and individual...
...Europe had ended only two years before, and national hatreds were still intense. Heller made a bold decision. He put students who had so recently fought against each other in the dormitories together. In the course of the summer an ex-Rommel staff officer formed a close friendship with a German communist, while down the hall a young Dane who had been beaten senseless by the Nazis confessed to an American, "For the first time I can talk to a German or an Austrian as a human being...
...State Department: "I believe Red Army offers possibility of developing understanding which no other group here offers. If contacts with Red Army chiefs are further fostered it seems likely that we may secure in them a group of friends who in party discussions might effectively present case for American friendship. These probable friends would be weakened . . . if contemplated withdrawal of personnel includes any member of army staff here...
...soldier first and a revolutionary second, Voroshilov fully appreciated the rising menace of both German and Japanese power. U.S.-Soviet friendship, deprecated by many of the purely political commissars, was to him crucial. This same attitude prevailed through the ambassadorship of Joseph E. Davies and ceased only when Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. But the memory of agreement still remained, and World War II saw a degree of Allied co-operation on the military level that, naturally but regrettably, was not equalled on the political. Possibly, with Zhukov now Defense Minister and Voroshilov still an important factor...