Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier and Foreign Minister of the Chinese People's Republic, member of the Politburo and Central Committee, veteran of the long intrigue and the Long March, trusted confidant of the Kremlin-spoke at Geneva as one of the masters of a seventh of the world's land surface, a fourth of its people...
...voice was shrill and hostile-far from the bland, candid tones which had once beguiled Chinese and unwary Westerners alike into misreading the nature and underestimating the strength of the Communists. The message he uttered came straight from the Kremlin's Mimeograph room (see above). But for the first time, as Chou took pains to point out, Red China was sitting with the big powers...
...Nationalist government, Chou En-lai bewitched the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsuch-liang over to the Communist cause, infiltrated his 150,000-man army and talked Chang into such a state of mutiny that he kidnaped Chiang. On Moscow's orders (the kidnaping did not fit the Kremlin's long-range plans for China), Chou reversed himself, glibly negotiated Chiang's release, leaving the Young Marshal high and dry and his army in the Red ranks. Chou's ransom price for Chiang's release was betrothal with the Communists. It was the fatal marriage...
During his testimony, Singer had denied ever being a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. He stated that he considered himself a Communist, but not one who believed in the violent overthrow of the government, or the following of direct orders from the Kremlin...
...pleasant enough fellow at a diplomatic reception. But "Konev, the social companion, and Konev, the servant of world revolution, were two different beings . . . He was a mental robot saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin." So, in Korea, it came as no surprise to Clark when North Korea's General Nam II sat in dead silence for 131 minutes rather than answer a direct question during the armistice talks, or that he planned the prisoner-of-war riots on the South Korean islands...