Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow Saved. In the deep, bombproof shelters of the Kremlin, the dictator faced up to a frightened group of party sycophants. Outside in the streets of Moscow the angry, dismayed mob was ready to tear them limb from limb. Stalin was forced to yield all military decisions to the man with the highest professional qualifications in Russia: Georgy Zhukov. Zhukov's first decision: save Moscow...
...with the sword shall perish by the sword. Such is the law of the Russian land, and such it will always be." Following the tactics of General Gallieni, who defended Paris against the Germans in 1914, Zhukov requisitioned every automotive vehicle he could find in Moscow, including the Kremlin limousines, and put a scratch army of volunteers on the Moscow-Mozhaisk road. He brought the Siberian army across on the trans-Siberian railroad and deployed them in five columns around Moscow. The fresh, well-officered Siberians pushed Von Bock's columns back out of artillery range of the capital...
...Austria, the vast Red army was preparing its first retreat in Europe since World War II. Having made up its mind to give the Austrians back their freedom in exchange for neutrality, the Kremlin was literally showering concessions on the people whom it had curbed for ten years-returning their P.W.s, permitting them to fly their own airplanes, dismantling restrictions on trade. The Russians plainly hoped that the West Germans would be tempted to imitate the Austrian pattern-to trade a pledge of neutrality for a promise of German unity. But Heinrich von Brentano, the man who is slated...
...comes up May 26, and the Conservative and Labor (Socialist) Parties published their platform this week. Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives utter a set of pious bromides about their love of peace and determination to avoid war. To that end, they propose to seek early talks with the Kremlin mob on easing world tensions. Nothing is said about the Kremlin mob showing evidence of good faith before such talks are held. The Conservatives hint broadly that they'll heed the Socialists' demand to cut the conscription period from the present two years. When they get around...
...William W. Bartley III, in his story on "Communism at Harvard" in the CRIMSON of April 22, 1955, said a letter addressed simply "Kremlin-on-the-Charles, Cambridge 38, Mass." was delivered without question to Eliot House by the United States Post Office...