Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians relaxed their iron hand. In Belgrade, they made overtures to the heretic, Tito. They even confessed that in postwar policy they had made some "mistakes." All along the globecircling seam where the West and Communism rub together abrasively, the stagnant air of cold war began to stir with Kremlin gestures of concession, of adjustment, even of retreat (see below...
Churchill declined so transparent a gambit, but still believes that the Kremlin may want an easing of tensions. Any relaxation, Churchill granted, would be strictly "temporary." But "everything is temporary-including Malenkov...
...leaks insistently denied that the Big Three conference was necessarily a preliminary to anything. And from New Delhi, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had been kept posted on the Bermuda arrangements, repeated that the U.S. still wants "deeds, not words" before sitting down to talk with the Kremlin's new masters. He specified three deeds: a truce in Korea, an end to aggression against Laos in Indo-China and an Austrian peace treaty...
WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...
...face that Yugoslavia's Communist Boss Tito turned toward his erstwhile big brothers in the Kremlin was beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost...