Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican's ablest party colleagues also rose to dispute the Taft and Hoover logic. "It is hard to understand how anyone can contend that the development of a defensive holding force in Europe . . . could look like aggression to such realistic men as the rulers of the Kremlin," said Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "We have . . . to get the arrow point from West to East, not from East to West...
Last November Moscow made a clear-as-vodka attempt to disrupt the Western decision to rearm Western Germany: the Kremlin held out the enticing prospect of another Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. The U.S., Britain and France replied that such a talk must include not only the question of Germany but of other areas of disagreement as well. On New Year's Eve, the Russians answered. They reaffirmed their offer to talk about Germany, but gave neither a flat da nor a flat niet on whether they were willing to talk about the other sore spots...
Toward the end of World War II, a Kremlin visitor warned Stalin that the German Communist Party might-someday-outnumber and outdo the Russian party. Stalin snorted: "Communism on a German is like a saddle...
...trial, but demanded that she sign a confession anyhow. Not knowing what to confess, she refused-and drew a five-year sentence in Siberia as a "socially dangerous element." Among the starved, louse-bitten, work-weary inmates of Karaganda concentration camp, Comrade Buber lost her last illusions about the Kremlin dictatorship. One early incident was enlightening: when she asked for a "reopening" of her case, she was tossed into a punishment compound...
...faction favored by Russia soon got into the saddle. Korea became a Kremlin show-until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...