Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expert opinion in the West, hesitant at first to make any judgments at all on the goings-on in the Kremlin, last week was hardening into a conclusion: that the new Soviet peace offensive primarily reflects and responds to internal stress. The men in the Kremlin do not want anyone rocking the boat-either from inside or out-until the scuffle in the wheelhouse is over...
...rest of the world's diplomats heartily dislike and healthily respect Vyacheslav Molotov. Alone of the top men in the Kremlin, he is familiar with lands and peoples beyond the control of the Red army. He alone has had to match the rigidities of Communist dogma with the realities of the undogmatic world outside. He has been the principal foreign agent of Communism since 1939. Most of the twists and somersaults of Soviet foreign policy have been his handiwork-in execution, and often in conception. But not necessarily in the basic decisions: Molotov is a born...
Light Out. Of all the shadowy figures in the Kremlin, Molotov is the man the world knows most about. In person, he is a small, unprepossessing, pigeon-toed man with golden pince-nez and the hardpan face of a gravedigger. Looking into his eyes, wrote British Diplomat Harold Nicolson, "is like looking into a refrigerator when the lights have gone...
Walks in the Kremlin. The biggest plum of all went to Molotov. In 1930, at the age of 40, he became Premier. His acceptance speech: "I received my schooling under the direct guidance of ... Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today, I had to work mainly as a party worker. I declare to you, comrades, that I am going to work in the government also as a party worker, as the agent of the party's will...
...forced through the first two Five-Year Plans. Not long after Molotov's pretty, pigtailed daughter Svetlana had learned to talk, she innocently laid bare the secret of her father's success. "Mother works," she pouted. "Father doesn't work. He just walks in the Kremlin with Stalin...