Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia has been invited to San Francisco but is not likely to accept: the Kremlin demanded last month that the Japanese treaty be turned over to a Big Four conference of the U.S., Russia, Britain and Communist China, assailed the U.S. plan, which excludes the Chinese Reds - like the Nationalists - from signing the treaty (Japan will be free to choose later which Chinese regime it wishes to make peace with). Last week the State Department rejected the Russian. proposal. Said Dulles: "I hope the Russians will come along, but... we will proceed in any event. They have no veto power...
...officials thought they had detected a new shift in the treacherous winds from the Kremlin. Droves of polite Russian diplomats suddenly turned up at U.S. embassies all over the world to attend Fourth of July celebrations. They dropped hints that now might be a good time for five-power talks to reach a worldwide settlement. The fifth power would, of course, be Red China...
Such soft talk showed that the Communists might really want peace in Korea-if the price is right. For the future, it inspired as many misgivings as hopes. The Kremlin's fixed tactics are to slash weakness with armor, to sap strength with wiles. Out of the MacArthur hearing, the Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce...
...Warmly expressed this nation's "friendship and good will" and peaceful intentions toward the Russian people in a congressional resolution forwarded with a covering letter from President Truman. Chances of the Kremlin passing this news ungarbled to Pravda readers: zero. But Voice of America will broadcast it to the U.S.S.R...
...representatives at the Potsdam, Yalta, Teheran and Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...