Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese mainland, that Chiang's is the true government of China. As the second wave of Mao Tse-tung's human sea ebbed bloodily in Korea's dark hills, the State Department also proclaimed that China's Communist government is no more than a Kremlin puppet. The dust had taken a long time to settle, but apparently it had, and the State Department could now see clearly. Said Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "We do not recognize the authorities in Peiping for what they pretend to be. The Peiping regime may be a colonial Russian...
...General Assembly, India's Sir Benegal Rau gleefully scooped up the Johnson idea, also recalled a recent statement by General Matthew Ridgway: "It would be a tremendous victory for the United Nations if the war ended with our forces in control up to the 38th parallel." The Kremlin seemed interested, too. The Moscow press printed the full text of Johnson's proposal. So did New York's Daily Worker; it commented significantly: "Why wait till June 25? End the killing now . . . Stop the war . . . Start talking with China and Korea...
BRIDGES: "General, is it in your opinion the aim of the Kremlin to destroy or take over the whole free world...
Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican. It is hard to say which one makes his hackles rise higher, but each time he claws at Stalin he manages to scratch the Pope. His 1949 bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (168,000 copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under...
...Catholicism is to them a religion and not a political system; in all good conscience, they can be as good democrats as he is. Above all, in the embattled world of 1951, Blanshard's book will strike many Americans as an irrelevance. It was the man in the Kremlin who once asked-and waited for the laugh-"How many divisions has the Pope...