Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow this week delivered another note to London in a series, beginning last November, in which Russia accuses Britain of violating the 1942 Anglo-Soviet (20year) treaty of alliance and mutual assistance. Said the Kremlin: Russia's armed forces were now reduced to their 1939 size and were only half the size of the "combined forces of 5,000,000" put under arms by the U.S., Britain and r ranee...
This makes for increasingly hard choices in the Kremlin. The Russians can strike now, overrun Europe and Asia, and see their own cities destroyed by A-bombs. Or they can build toward effective A-bomb equality while the free world builds the defenses of Europe and Asia...
...atomic umbrella continues to protect a united free world, if the U.S. strengthens Europe and Asia fast enough, if Communism is rolled back, the West can confront the Kremlin with the conditions for peaceful coexistence...
Tito himself cried alarm. "The least possible event in Europe," he broadcast, "is a localized war." It was a warning to the Kremlin that an attack might well be the step into World...
London and Washington feared that Tito's troubles at home plus the rearmament of his hostile neighbors might tempt the Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...