Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such waspish suspicions were thrust aside in the sudden Gemiitlichkeit of Moscow's reception. On the first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk...
...expenses to win economic gains. "For eight years you have been in opposition," he told Mendès-France, "and often you have made it plain that you would save money by reducing military expenditure. Are you betting the peace of the world on the good will of the Kremlin or on the defensive alliance of the Atlantic? I am among those who will not agree to gamble the survival of France on a hand of poker...
Religion may be the opium of the people, but to a Russian propagandist it can be a mighty handy gadget. Last week the Kremlin's latest piece of religious propaganda dropped right out of the sky over Turkey...
...European security (TIME, Aug. 2). It was a clumsy and obvious piece of propaganda. In the Cabinet. Salisbury and Eden pointed out incisively that it added nothing to the very same suggestion the Russians made (and the West rejected) six months ago in Berlin. If that is all the Kremlin is ready to put forward, there was no point in a Churchill-Malenkov talk...
Significantly, the only major Western diplomat invited to share the head table with the celebrating Communists was Britain's Ambassador Sir William Hayter, an example of the Kremlin's attempt to split the Anglo-Americans. Other notable head-table guests: the ambassadors of India and Indonesia. The theme was "peaceful coexistence." As toast followed vodka toast, Khrushchev became conspicuously animated. Agriculture and party machinery are his specialties: he has never been outside the Iron Curtain in his life. But now he was full of foreign affairs. He proposed a toast to the Geneva settlement. He waxed confidential...