Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin official roused U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk on a peaceful Moscow Sunday to hand him a polite little note. The Russians were pleased to accept a U.S. invitation to sit down at the Japanese Peace Treaty conference in San Francisco early next month. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would be in charge of a four-man delegation including the Russian ambassadors to Washington and London...
Inside the Kremlin. Much more can be pieced together from Westerners who have met him, and from escaped Soviet airmen who served in Poland and Germany with or under him. Their picture of Vasily is not quite so heroic. Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili Stalin was bora in 1921 or 1922, probably in Moscow (no one is quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife...
...headquarters in Tokyo put out a statement designed to show a cleavage between Moscow and Peking. Russia., said the statement, had inveigled the Chinese into the Korean war in order "to slash the strength of China . . . because a strong China on Russia's southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare . . . China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Mao Tse-tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship ... It may mean China eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia . . . The Reds have been so busy looking for cracks in the structure of the democracies they have not noticed...
...struggle between the West and Communism. If either of the great forces wins Islam as ally, the scale of power is tipped. To the West, opportunity beckons from one side of Islam - its God, its acceptance of the moral code, its protection of private property. To the Kremlin, opportunity beckons from another side of Islam - its poverty and corruption, its long acceptance of tyranny, its ingrained hatred of Christendom...
Kuznetsov, as much at home in Kremlin committee rooms as on a man o' war's bridge, got a job working on riverboats at twelve, soon afterward joined the embryonic Soviet navy. Kuznetsov is a member of the Party Central Committee, accompanied Stalin to Yalta. During the Spanish civil war, he was reported in charge of the Loyalists' small naval forces...