Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier, at a U.N. Council talk, Kirk declared that the U.S. will have to rebuild its military might before it can effectively tete-a-tete with the Soviets...
Josef Stalin is "too prudent" to launch a war against the West, Alan G. Kirk, Jr., former ambassador to Russia, said in an interview Friday...
...Kirk said that the people in the Communist sphere of authority don't want war, but they'll do--as always--what they're told. He described Stalin as being "feared, hated, respected, loved," and volunteered, "For my money he is the outstanding figure of the century...
Asked if the Soviet dictator would be walling to resort to war to accomplish his expansionist ends, Kirk alluded to Stalin's many outstanding accomplishments and said that he has a "strong sense of history." Although he is under pressure from ambitions military advisors and theorists. "I think he's too prudent for that." Kirk stated. "Besides, he's 72, and even for a Georgian, that...
Regarding the current balance of power, Kirk said. "We can't deal with these fellows when we're weak, in a military sense. They understand superiority. They won't talk until they're persuaded that we have enough force to make our voice heard...