Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharing his long-range ambitions, they might feel that for the present, toughness is no longer paying dividends. Communist subversion in Greece led to the strengthening of Greece and Turkey. The 1948 Czechoslovak Putsch forced Western Europe into NATO; the invasion of Korea sparked Western rearmament. By 1956, the Kremlin may reckon, the Communist world is apt to find itself confronted by an armed and aroused U.S., supported by a coalition in which German and Japanese arms loom large. Here again, fact bolsters guess: now is perhaps the last chance to halt the rearmament of Western Germany...
...taught that detours often are necessary if, at a given moment, the opponent is superior in strength; that one must withdraw temporarily in order to summon up new strength. Only thus will it be possible to prepare the new attack, to establish the basis for the final victory ..." The Kremlin masters, it is safe to assume, have read their Lenin...
...bought a block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
Collective Security. In Chapel Hill, N.C., Bruce Strowd, who celebrated the wartime victory at Stalingrad by naming Joseph Stalin co-owner of a $25 war bond and mailing it to the Kremlin, was assured by U.S. Treasury officials that the bond had not been cashed and that, in this case, he would not have to furnish the co-owner's death certificate in order to collect the money...
...though Hitler and Stalin were right about the decadence of democracy. With the baseball opener down the drain, the rest shouldn't take long. Armed services appropriations and foreign aid bills will lie forgotten on the desk, or perhaps in the bottom of a golf bag. Cheer up, Kremlin. It looks like easy sailing from...