Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his long siege of illness, Anthony Eden at 56 is feeling robust again and eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
What the democratic West had failed to achieve in all of four years' diplomacy -a sovereign, rearmed West Germany-the Soviet Union ordained in East Germany with a flick of its whip. Last week the Kremlin announced that the Soviet occupation of its East German satellite is at an end, that the puppet "People's Republic" will now be "a sovereign state . .. free to decide, at its own discretion, its own internal and external affairs...
...second paragraph of the "sovereignty" manifesto made plain what the Kremlin's brand of "freedom" amounts to: "The Soviet Union retains . . . those functions which are connected with the safeguarding of security." The Red army, in other words, will continue to maintain its 340,000-man garrison in East Germany, a dagger directed at NATO, a club to be used against the East German people should they rebel again against their Red masters...
...maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...
...addition, there is no real economic dialectic, says Moore. The drive of Soviet Russia's industrial machine comes from the pressure of the Kremlin, backed by terror, and not from the nature of the economic system. The Communist structure depends on its leadership, and the leaders are using "trial-and-error methods...