Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin could congratulate itself on a delicate job, well-if brusquely-handled. It had reason to worry about Comrade Thorez. Long before the world heard of Titoism, the French party chief was quarreling with colleagues who accused him of harboring patriotic relics in his thinking. Thorez made unorthodox statements such as "One thing happened in Russia, another will happen in France. We'll have our French revolution in our own French fashion." Three times Thorez had been slapped down by the Kremlin for nationalist tendencies. Each time he took his reprimand like a good Kremlin offspring, welcoming the blows...
Most of the free world guessed that the Kremlin was playing the old Red shell game-now-you-see-peace, now-you-don't -sometimes called tactics of confusion...
...wiry, weather-beaten Air Force Lieutenant General named William E. Kepner, commander in chief of Alaska (CINCAL). Bill Kepner ran his taut command from a birch-walled office on the first floor of a thick, concrete command center at Anchorage. Around town it was known as "The Kremlin," much to his distaste ("There is nothing Russian in my command; I know of no Kremlin in it," says he gruffly...
...Moscow" took the "cleaning, painting and construction" going on in Moscow as a sign that Russia was not expecting atomic bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory. He interpreted "a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans, copper and brass samovars" as evidence that "the Kremlin does not anticipate requiring these basic materials for war production...
Unsolved Problem. The Times had walked into the Worker's sneak punch with more than a suspicion that it was bound to catch one some day. Although no news gets out of Russia which does not please the Kremlin's censors, the Times had sent Salisbury, ex-foreign editor of the United Press, to Moscow nearly two years ago on the theory that some "news" out of Russia is better than none. But week after week, as the Times printed long -and censored-dispatches from Salisbury which more or less echoed Pravda and Izvestia, the Times had worriedly...