Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade and treaty ties would not be so significant. Yugoslavia, after all, is not a member of NATO and is bound to the West only through the Turkish-Greek triangle and United States military support. But the Soviet actions are important because they are typical of a new, positive Kremlin foreign policy which may well steal a long strategic march on the more rigid policies of the United States...
...Tito the promise of real economic concessions from which Yugoslavia can clearly benefit. And if the trend which began with the Austrian peace treaty should continue--and there is no reason to think that a Russian cannot recognize a good thing as well as the next man--the Kremlin will offer similar economic and political concessions to states farther west than the DBalkans...
...charges that the United States is meddluing in domestic politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled. Finally, there is the very real possibility that there has been a shift in Russian policy: the men presently in the Kremlin might genuinely wish for peaceful co-existence. The door to such a goal is one which United States policy-makers must never shut...
EDWARD CRANKSHAW, political analyst for the London Observer and author of "Cracks in the Kremlin Wall," in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY...
...agriculture is going through a normal stage in the transition from low-value to high-value production simply will not hold water. There is nothing normal about this highly artificial situation. Because of its insane pretensions as a global power, because of its preoccupation with spreading Communism abroad, the Kremlin has immensely added to its task. It is trying to carry out the traditional development from simple arable to complex mixed farming while, at the same time, diverting vast acreages and resources to the so-called industrial crops and cutting itself off from the free supply of agricultural machinery from...