Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin lost Formosa; and it had an unexpected fight on its hands in Korea. While serious, the Kremlin's mistake was not vital. The U.S.S.R.'s stooges might still overrun South Korea, in which case the U.S. would lose much new-found face in Asia. And if the North Koreans were beaten, what? The main elements of Communist power would still be intact, ready to fight another...
...Five Mice. But what day, and where? The West's experts on the Communist mind try to imagine themselves in the Kremlin and look around the world from there, trying to see the world through Stalin's cat's eyes. The main mice in sight: Indo-China, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany...
...part of the Korean decision, the U.S. has decided to strengthen its help to the anti-Communist forces in Indo-China. If the U.S. moves fast, Indo-China can be saved-unless a Chinese Communist army crosses the border. But that would be a costly move for the Kremlin to make. Indo-Chinese do not like the Chinese, and Asians would be horrified at such "imperialism" by one Asiatic country against another...
...Kremlin pounces on Iran, it will have to pounce with Russian troops. That means risking all-out war with the U.S. and the U.N., which (the experts believe) Russia definitely does not want...
...backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably get all-out U.S.-U.N. help...