Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles E. Bohlen '27, member of the Board of Overseers has been declared acceptable by the Kremlin as the next United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union...
...amount of apology or police diligence could undo the damage, since the bomb could not have served Soviet leaders better if they had touched it off themselves. It would have been normal for the Kremlin to accept Israel's apologies: in 1927, for example, when a White Russian killed the Soviet ambassador to Poland, Moscow contented itself with a strong note of protest. This time the Kremlin obviously had been awaiting a pretext...
...Pointing Finger. The accusations plainly involved more than antiSemitism. For one thing, the top three purged doctors are not Jewish: P. I. Yegorov, chief of the Kremlin doctors, V. E. Vinogradov, one of the leaders of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, and G. I. Mayorov. These doctors, said the Kremlin, "proved to be agents of long standing of the British Intelligence...
...outside world could safely surmise that an important, perhaps historic contortion was under way at the seat of the power which rules one half the world and threatens the other half. For the first time in 15 years, the Kremlin deliberately announced to the world the existence of a plot within the high Communist circle. "As far as the inspirers of these hireling killers are concerned," vowed Pravda, "they can be assured that Nemesis will not forget them...
Andrei Zhdanov, burly and bullnecked, presided over Leningrad during its grim wartime siege, emerged from the war as the engineer of the Kremlin's ideological and cultural "purges," and chief proponent of the policy of all-out hostility towards non-Communist Europe. His tough policy was an important element in provoking Tito's defection, and may be largely responsible for the great decline in Communist voting strength in Western Europe. Zhdanov's funeral, at which Premier Stalin played a tear-stained role as pallbearer, was one of the most elaborate since Lenin...