Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist dream, was skeptical of the Kremlin's power politics as early as 1943. Two years later he officially warned Washington that a weak China would invite quick, dangerous Russian influence in Asia...
...West's offer was made to the Kremlin but addressed primarily to the German people. A German settlement, the West said, can only be worked out if there is a "genuinely representative all-German government, formed as a result of free elections and able to participate in full freedom in the discussion of a peace treaty." A united Germany must be free and sovereign, safe from outside interference, and secure from any domestic putsch. Above all, the West insisted, Germany must have "the basic right of a free and equal nation to associate with other nations...
Queried about progress in Korea, Harriman stated. "The Kremlin doesn't know how to get out of the situation they started." He pointed to the concerted, anti-aggression action of the United Nations and to their having driven the attackers out of South Korea. Smiling broadly, he remarked, "Looks like they don't know how to get out and still save face...
...dinner party in the Kremlin's underground shelters early in 1942, says Nephew Svanidze, Stalin was told that Lenin's body, since its removal, was deteriorating rapidly. Stalin expressed fears that if Lenin's body became completely decomposed the Russian people might take it as a bad omen: "If we find it is impossible to preserve the body, we'll have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body...
Harvard, long considered the "Kremlin on the Charles" in certain right-wing quarters, is now being attacked from the other side...