Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lavrenty Beria's fall, like H. Dumpty's, was a great event, and all the Russian experts in the West started trying to piece together facts, rumors and Communist propaganda lies in order to reconstruct their theories of what is going on in the Kremlin. Charles Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, probably knew as much about what had happened as any outsider could. But last week, when he flew home to brief the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Conference, it was apparent that even "Chip" Bohlen did not know much...
Dramatic Offer. This kind of wishful thinking influenced British and French demands for a four-power conference with Russia. Last week, with jungle law clearly stalking the Kremlin, a four-power conference seemed less appropriate than ever. Whoever represented Russia at such a conference would gain in recognition and stature against his rivals. It is hardly in the interest of the anti-Communist powers to abate the dog fight by helping the Communists to pick a new top dog. At this time of renewed treachery and revolt in the Communist world, any contribution the U.S. could make toward its further...
...Communist Party was held ten days later, somewhere in Moscow. On this committee sit Russia's 200 mightiest Communists, men with great rank and great fears. They gathered to hear the most significant news since Stalin's death 93 days before: the struggle for power among the Kremlin's titans had begun...
...Inherent weakness is disclosed." British Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting called it "the dividend of our strength." In Bonn, Adenauer's rivals saw Beria's fall giving them an edge in the coming elections. In Yugoslavia, Tito's henchmen saw it as proof "that the Kremlin was introducing Titoism into the satellites." In India, Beria's fall was seen as justifying Nehru's thesis that Peking cannot be controlled by Moscow forever...
...Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore, just out of Moscow after a twelve-year stint, had a more realistic picture of Russian feeling: "It is as clear as the face on the Kremlin clock that throughout the Communist world tonight party members from the highest to the lowest feel the terrible hand of political terror clutching at their necks. The enormity of Mr. Beria's disgrace is an inescapable reminder that, but for fate, they might be sitting where...