Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pause & Pass On. President Truman stepped briefly but emphatically into the debate at his weekly press conference. The Hoover proposals were nothing else but isolationism, said the President, and the nation was not going back to it. Added Dean Acheson: "To abandon our allies would gratify the Kremlin. To do so would be appeasement on a gigantic scale." The President and his State Department seemed to be taking their cue from a Harvard law professor who, having presented arguments against his own conclusions in a legal case, remarked: "These considerations give me pause, but having paused, I pass on." Massachusetts...
...governments of Britain and France, prodded by their neutralist and third-force factions, were more ready than the U.S. to see a chance for a deal that might appease the men in the Kremlin. But, in the interests of unity, each of the Big Three replied to Moscow's overture with identical notes. They blamed Russia for remilitarizing East Germany and for rejecting the Western proposal of free elections as the basis of a united Germany. They agreed to another talk, provided that the agenda were broadened to include all causes of "present international tensions...
...asked to accept austerity and sacrifice while being placed outside "the strategic periphery." It would be better, said Le Monde in effect, for France to be neutral. Cried Norway's Dagbladet: "Herbert Hoover . . . neo-isolationism . . . means that Russia has got a new weapon in the cold war." The Kremlin evidently thought it had something, indeed. Moscow's Pravda printed the full text of Hoover's statement, though it had not even summarized Harry Truman's national emergency address. The Soviet press was apparently trying to prove that U.S. opinion agreed with the Soviet demand...
Volkskammer. The Brussels meeting was held under a cloud of new threats from Russia. Three days before the meeting opened, the Kremlin had called in the French and British ambassadors, handed them similar notes. Said the one to France: Russia would not "accept" the rearming of West Germany planned by the Atlantic pact powers. Furthermore, France was "responsible" for undermining the six-year-old Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. Meanwhile, the Communist German East zone Volkskammer (Parliament) unanimously decreed penalties up to death by beheading for all Germans-West as well as East zone-who supported German rearming...
...well-worn lie, its purpose served, was discarded. With Czechoslovakia's police state well entrenched, Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger* could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland, on the map of central Europe. A new government was prepared to take over our new state...