Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America's overall policy does. The inequality of the trading requirements has a disadvantage greater than the profitable ventures of the shrewd dealers behind the Curtain. It also makes Communist China more dependent on Eastern Europe for necessary goods. Until Congress can decide on a consistent program, the Kremlin will continue to weld Eastern Europe to Red China with economic solder provided by the United States...
...Philosophers. At home Russia's new masters have made specific and grandiose promises of more consumer goods, including TV sets and "elegant footwear." The Stalin auto works, which once produced nothing but the huge limousines that Stalin favored, has been converted to the manufacture of plebian bicycles. The Kremlin itself, which Stalin had made a symbol of dark terror, has been flung open to tourists and its rooms made over for children's celebrations and public meetings. The members of the junta have taken to bounding around the country like so many politicians running for office: Malenkov...
Abroad, the Kremlin's new men have made adjustments, some trivial, some substantial. They sent Russian diplomats back to the diplomatic cocktail parties in Berlin, released swatches of German war prisoners from Russian prisons (the Germans estimate they still hold 138,000). They relaxed pressure on Iran, dropped their demand for the return of Kars and Ardahan from Turkey, resumed relations with Yugoslavia. They arranged for Air France to fly a Soviet-Paris service. They took their places in UNESCO and ILO, which they had previously boycotted...
...logical choice to go to Moscow with Bill Bullitt and set up the U.S. embassy. During the 1936-38 Moscow purge trials, he correctly reported to Washington that men were being judicially lynched in an intraparty power struggle; Henderson's boss, Ambassador Joseph Davies, naively accepted the Kremlin line that the accused were traitors...
...satellite had ever won such concessions, or even the appearance of them, from the harsh bargainers of the Kremlin. They testified that the Red dynasty of Peking, in only five years of power, had achieved the strength and status of partnership with Red Russia. The evidence was in the language of communiques ("increased defensive potential," and "accumulation of necessary economic experience"). It was evident even more in the way the accords were struck. Four years ago, Mao Tse-tung himself meekly trooped off to Moscow, signed, under Stalin's eye, the treaty leaving the strategic Port Arthur region...