Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most astonishing international show in years. Emerging from the protection of the Kremlin's wall and the shelter of the Kremlin's controlled press, Russia's top men seemed inept, uncertain, boorish. Yugoslavs watched the antics of Nikita Khrushchev with amazement. Western diplomats, remembering the remote, inscrutable, implacable Joseph Stalin, had to keep reminding themselves that this garrulous little man was his successor...
...Four parley at the summit. This, and the British election, made it a table for four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...
...weeks ago the Kremlin called a conference of its top industrial managers to read off a formidable list of wastages and failures. Commented Pravda: "Many enterprises that systematically fail to reach their targets ... are concealed behind the attained overall targets in [other] branches of industry." The solution was characteristically bureaucratic: two new economic commissions were formed, one to deal with present planning, the other to deal with the future. Management of a number of key industries was broken up to decentralize...
...close to Kaganovich adjudge him its "thinking" member. Identified in the past with the rise to power of both Khrushchev and Malenkov, and held in some trust by both factions, old Bolshevik Kaganovich is regarded as the chief advocate of the current "collective leadership," under which all the wary Kremlin gang can hang on to their lives and jobs if no one of them gets too strong...
...fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral, especially since the Russian admirals, who like the elder Thorez are under Kremlin orders, wear no feathers, sport no dress uniforms...