Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moth-eaten symbol of East-West friendship broke briefly into the news last week as President Eisenhower recalled the bear-skin rug given him in the last days of the war by Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The knowledge that Zhukov, the newly named Defense Minister, is a thoroughly professional soldier with the professional's innate caution, was probably the only encouraging aspect of the newest revolution of Moscow's inner circle...
...conversations with any power in 1933, but it was fortunate to send to Moscow so capable a military attache as Major Philip R. Faymonville. Fluent in Russian, Faymonville soon became friendly with the highest officers of the Red Army. Years later, at the outbreak of World War II, this friendship was to pay off: the United States knew enough about the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet forces to risk shipping material to Russia...
Five years ago yesterday the Soviet Union and Communist China signed a treaty of friendship, alliance, and mutual assistance between the two countries. Since that time, and including last week's change in Russian leadership, nothing has happened to weaken the alliance--in fact, recent developments indicate a strengthening of that bond...
...last week, many Communist officials have reaffirmed "the unbreakable fraternal friendship" of the two countries. Yesterday, for instance, Mao Tes-tung, the ruler of Red China, in a wave public statement, expressed confidence that "the great cooperation between China and the Soviet Union will be strengthened still further...
...through high pressure efforts by governments bureaus; indeed the strength of the Winants derives largely from the circumstance that they are not in government, that they have no axe to grind, that they are just Americans who have paid their own way over to make a personal contribution to friendship between the two peoples...