Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally rough was Pravda's reply last week to President Harry Truman's San Francisco speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Not Russia but the U.S., fumed the Kremlin mouthpiece, had blocked the path of peace. Truman's statements to the contrary were "rude, ridiculous pretensions [that] could originate only in the mind of a warmonger...
...easy to blame the whole tragic business on Russia. Without doubt the men in the Kremlin are largely responsible for our predicament. But Russia's intransigence is only part of the story. We ourselves, I believe, bear a very real share of the responsibility for the present situation because, though inspired by the noblest ideals, we have failed to come to grips with the practical realities of power, and more specifically, to use an old phrase, with the realities of the "balance of power...
...Harold Stassen, who had chatted with Joe Stalin in the Kremlin back in 1947, it seemed a good time for another talk. He sent the Soviet embassy in Washington a letter to be delivered to the Russian dictator. It began: "It is now three and one half years since I talked with you . . . I write to you. . . in the interest of world peace and the progress of mankind...
With this, Stassen gave Stalin the back of his hand for several long paragraphs, making it clear that Stassen had been right and the Premier dead wrong on a variety of subjects which they had discussed in the Kremlin. He recalled that Stalin had announced that the U.S.S.R. wanted world peace. "I find it impossible," he wrote, "to reconcile that statement with the North Korean aggression...
...four years before Korea, his friend told him, Russia had been pulling the biggest bluff in history. In Korea, the Russian officer said, the U.S.S.R. had lost not only face, but great stores of military equipment which it had hoped to use again in Indo-China and Siam. The Kremlin had also made some very bad mistakes in Europe. "Every one-legged German," said the Russian lugubriously, "would carry a gun against...