Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such statements are bound to get attention from Americans who (correctly) consider themselves possible victims of Russian A-bombs. Very few Americans now believe that the Kremlin can be conciliated or appeased or reasoned with. Very few are content to sit back and wait for the Communists to strike. They want to know what can be done. This is a summary of the pros & cons of the main paths open to U.S. policy...
TIME [July 17] gave the following definition of "The Cat in the Kremlin," that is, of Mr. Stalin:. "Better than any other Bolshevik he got hold of the essential principle of Leninism. The principle: anything for the sake of absolute power over men. Stalin is the No. 1 Communist not merely because he has the top job but because he himself is in a notably advanced stage of Communism . . . It is not true, as the Trotskyists and Socialists say, that he sneaked into power. He got it because he deserved it-by the standards deeply imbedded in Communist philosophy...
...spite of Mindszenty's sacrifice, it seemed clear that the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe was losing its struggle with the Kremlin...
Last week, despite an estimated 60,000 casualties inflicted by United Nations forces during more than two months of continuous fighting, the Korean Communists were still on the attack (see above). The great lesson of the Korean war was that the Kremlin knew how to train Asians into first-rate fighting men. If the U.S. and its allies did not learn this art (which involved political as well as military indoctrination), there would be many a perilous and bloody year ahead...
...Sunday punch, the better minds in the Navy, trained in an older philosophy of power politics, were aware that "The War" with Russia might never come, or might be postponed until the odds were heavily against the U.S. The Navy sensed the danger that lay in the Kremlin's ability to start a series of brush fires (a la Korea) which might have to be quenched one by one. They knew that Britain had kept order along the coasts of the world by flying the Union Jack and dispatching naval power when that symbol of order was flouted. This...