Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a seven-story building across from the Kremlin, currently the office of the American who probably knows most about the mind and mood of Communist Russia, came a report last week that set off uneasy stirrings in Washington. Six weeks after his return to Moscow for the first time in six years, U.S. Ambassador George Kennan was disturbed by Russia's change of temper, and the violence of its current hate-America campaign. He first sent home his alarms, and then this week flew from Moscow to London to discuss them with Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
With. a sudden shifting of pawns and one of their bishops, the impassive players in the Kremlin changed the alignment of the diplomatic chessboard last week and left the rest of the world wondering what new gambit they were up to this time...
...hostile, icy "new generation" Communists who today are Russia's representatives to the outside world, Gromyko is plainly a big gun in the Foreign Ministry. In three years as Ambassador to the U.S. and two as Soviet delegate to the United Nations, his showing was brilliant enough (by Kremlin standards) to make him heir presumptive to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, whose health is none too good. In sending him to London instead of Washington, and in sending a nonentity to Washington, the Russians are plainly saying that they expect to accomplish more mischief in Britain than...
...Kremlin took these gentle snubs for a number of years, but in 1934 his passport expired. To replace it he procured from the University an awesome document covered with a huge golden Harvard Seal, pronouncing him a professor in good standing, and an affidavit signed and sealed by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts declaring the first document "genuine." The twin seals, under which an array of visas was soon attached, never failed to dazzle frontier authorities...
...commissar general of the Soviet exhibit at the New York World's Fair, was Ambassador to Canada when Soviet spies were caught redhanded stealing atom-bomb secrets. The Canadian Royal Commission later cleared him, produced an exchange of messages between the chief Soviet spy in Canada and his Kremlin boss which indicated that Zarubin was not to be informed of the spy ring in his own embassy...