Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only army that voted for its own liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil days of 1937-38, when the officer corps was decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years...
...Kremlin released a stiff note of protest to the United States, Britain, and France asking them to take measures to prevent such "unlawful" action...
...although unstinting in verbal support for Algeria's Moslem rebels, the Kremlin has given little or no concrete help, has not even recognized the rebel F.L.N. "provisional government." But Red China does recognize the rebel government, and recently feted two of its leaders, Mahmoud Cherif and Youssef ben Khedda, in Peking. Because of the geographical distance, direct Chinese aid could scarcely be anything but financial. But what worries the French more is the possibility that Peking might pressure...
...afternoon, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Freers delivered a hot, factladen protest to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian reply did not deny any of the facts, instead announced that "competent authorities," presumably the same Kremlin officials who ordered the kidnap, found Langelle to be engaged in secret intelligence work, and therefore persona non grata. Langelle thus became the eleventh U.S. official to be kicked out of Russia since 1952, but the first to undergo third-degree preliminaries...
Back in Czarist days, Russia was fifth in world industrial production and fourth in Europe. Today, the Kremlin declares, it is far ahead of the rest of Europe and second only to the U.S. in world rankings...