Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Russians decided to attend the San Francisco conference on the Japanese treaty, they did not know how successful Dulles had been. The Kremlin probably hoped to reopen old cleavages among the anti-Communist allies. By keeping his eye on the main objective and by scrupulously attending to every detail, Dulles created a solid anti-Communist phalanx at San Francisco, and the Russians suffered a humiliating diplomatic defeat. The State Department got much of the credit...
...over the world last week, people tested the political winds and hopefully observed that things were letting up a little. On the Kremlin organ, the peace theme swelled with a new urgency. In Germany, the Communists, trying to forestall West German rearmament, dangled the tantalizing hope of a reunified nation (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Sooner or later, the day the West had so anxiously hoped (and worked) for would come. The Kremlin would be watching for it too, and would indeed be the first to recognize it for what it was. On that day, the balance, which since World War II had been steadily tipping Russia's way, with the addition of such weights as China and Czechoslovakia (together with the Iron Curtains around them), might start tilting back the other way. What would Russia do then...
...Word. As usual, the Kremlin's course was clouded by a diversionary sprinkling of dove feathers. A fortnight ago Vladimir Semenov, Russian "political adviser" to the Soviet high commissioner in Berlin, returned from two weeks in Moscow. Next day he called a meeting of top Communists in East Berlin and gave them the word straight from headquarters: Russia's dominant aim now, more important even than Korea, is to prevent at all costs West Germany's rearmament and integration into the West defenses...
...accomplish this, he explained, the Kremlin has a two-phase plan: 1) to reunite East and West Germany before the year's end, on the single condition that it be an unarmed neutral; and 2) by underground political and economic sabotage prepare a "revolutionary situation" in Germany so that Communists ultimately could take over the whole, united area...