Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction took several forms. After ten years of stalling, the Soviet Union finally signed a peace treaty for Austria, agreeing to long-resisted clauses in return for Austrian neutrality. At the same time, with noticeable urgency, the Kremlin arranged a top-level mission to Yugoslavia, a pilgrimage to beg Marshal Tito to take a neutral position...
Thus, in a joint note to the Kremlin, the U.S. and its allies yielded to the pressure that had been abuilding in hearts everywhere (but mostly in Europe) since the day two years ago when Winston Churchill, from the summit of his own giant prestige, had suggested that a "parley at the summit" might mean a "generation of peace...
...speed and coordination of the Soviet Union's reaction to Big Four talks showed that the Kremlin's big men had calculated their moves and primed their propaganda long in advance. Hoping to gain the conference initiative with what countries they had on hand, the Russians: ¶ Signed the treaty making Austria independent and neutral, and recommended Austria's way as everyone's way. ¶ Set up a formal organization of U.S.S.R. and satellites' armies, in a kind of anti-NATO...
...Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission Subcommittee meeting there, spelled out in long-prepared detail how the Soviet Union would end the cold war. He did so without furnishing his fellow negotiators with translations, but Radio Moscow promptly broadcast the message in English, indicating that the Kremlin had intended the idea primarily for propaganda, not negotiation...
...purely military aid at just the moment when the plan was finally beginning to restore pre-war levels of prosperity. So long as Russian policy was also disjointed, the United States could find considerable success in meeting each new threat as it developed. But the recent signs that the Kremlin is preparing a comprehensive long-range policy calls for an equally extensive reorientation in Washington...