Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature of the Communist Party, not TIME, rules out the possibility of a peaceful compromise. TIME said: "Under these circumstances [60 U.S. and European divisions ready to defend Europe], the free world could reasonably hope that the Kremlin would suspend its present aggressive drive. Only under such circumstances would talk of the 'peaceful coexistence' of the free world and the U.S.S.R. begin to make sense...
...North Koreans must have felt abandoned by their Big Brothers in the Kremlin, but they fought savagely for Seoul while U.S. spearheads from the southeast raced to a junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...
Stalin's defeat in Korea would not prevent him from trying again-whenever he saw an opportunity to extend the Kremlin's sway. But Korea would almost certainly make Stalin more cautious about further adventures. Korea had looked like a sure thing, and it had blown up in Stalin's face...
North Koreans have reasons for disliking Communism, Lee explains. The Russians stripped the section of plants, machinery, and ration-scarce rice. Also the Russians intend that Korea should not be independent, but belong to the Soviet Union, as one of its republics. Such a Kremlin policy was publicized by the present North Korean foreign minister...
...some danger involved in the decision to send American and South Korean forces across the 38th parallel at this time. It will certainly reinforce the Communist propaganda line in Asia where the propaganda charges American or white imperialism. It may provoke the Peking government of China, or perhaps the Kremlin, into some new aggressive action, even into an all-out war. But in the present situation the risks involved in immediately occupying all of Korea appear to be sound...