Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into office as Kopriva's successor went tough, 55-year-old Karel Bacilek, Moscow-trained son of a Slovak bricklayer, and former Minister of State Control, i.e., Big Brother to all Czech industry. Bacilek's appointment seemed to indicate a new Kremlin policy in Czechoslovakia. Disturbed by the Czechs' failure to deliver their quota of weapons and equipment to the Red army, the Kremlin is getting rid of men like Slansky and Kopriva, who were good Communist theoreticians but sloppy administrators, and replacing them with lesser-known Communists who know how to get things done...
...menace of Communist aggression," he said, "the fraternal association of the United States with Britain . . . and the new unity growing up in Europe ... all these harmonies are being brought forward, perhaps by several generations, in the destiny of the world. If this proves true . . . the architects in the Kremlin may be found to have built a different and a far better world structure than what they planned...
...impression got around the world that the Kremlin's puppetmasters are plainly preventing, or at least delaying, a Korean truce. At Panmunjom, the atmosphere was reminiscent of last August, when the Reds broke off the talks for two months. The deadlocks that had existed for weeks-on safeguarding the armistice and exchange of prisoners-continued...
...ruble and reducing prices were jointly signed by Stalin and Malenkov. When tributes to Stalin on his 70th birthday were published, Malenkov's got first play in the Russian papers. Georgy Malenkov has been the fat man at Stalin's elbow in recent group pictures of the Kremlin hierarchy...
...Kremlin, he alone still affects the plain military tunic and cap Stalin made famous. He has been married twice, first to one of Molotov's secretaries, now to a Moscow actress. He has, like Koestler's Gletkin, no cord to the outside world: he has never set foot on non-Communist soil, never been known to speak to Western newspapermen or Western diplomats. In the few speeches comrade Malenkov has made for public consumption, perhaps the most memorable line is: "Can there be any doubt that a Third World War will become the grave for world capitalism...