Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outgrowth of the wartime U.S.-Soviet alliance. Indeed, from the very first days of this country's recognition of the Soviet government in 1933, the military leaders, realizing Russia's comparative weakness and its need for aid against possible aggressors, were the most pro-American element of the Kremlin hierarchy. More interested in logistics than Leninism, the professional soldiers provided few of the doctrinaire revolutionaries who had nothing but scorn for the West...
Perhaps, the men in the Kremlin feared another Tito; perhaps, they wanted China as a very close ally. Whatever the reason, beginning with the ascension of Malenkov as Prime Minister, Russia made a number of concessions to the Chinese. Mao began to be treated with much more respect, and his ideological views were accepted as equal to those of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin...
...ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious Parisian's neighbors learned his identity: ailing Maurice Thorez, France's high-living No. 1 Communist, a dedicated proletarian whose exclusive industry aims at delivering France into the Kremlin's power...
...store, Stern tonguelashes him about the exploitation of the workers. After that, the moves are inexorable and a little pat: Commie cell organizer, a training stint in Moscow, the Cominform, the return to Prague as the party's dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until the line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only...
Anti-Americanism, does not raise its head in west Berlin. Our air-lift and reconstruction funds have done much for her, and we are her only protection against being swallowed up by the Kremlin. she is more than grateful. Perhaps through this utter dependence on America, the Berliners have absorbed much of our system, and have reached independence in their thinking. The magnificent glass-and -concrete Free University, put up by a Ford Foundation, is as much a monument to America's influence as is the Air Lift memorial...