Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington. In these news centers our reporters talked to all of the experts whose business it is to know the Russians, and who have the best sources of information on Russia. With this information for guidance, the editors have tried to analyze the crisis in Asia from the Kremlin's viewpoint. This, incidentally, is the eighth time that Stalin has been on TIME'S cover...
...apprehensive world asked these questions at bars and council tables, at workbench and at hearthside, followed them with a hundred more. The answer was buried in the mind of a grey, catlike old man behind the walls of the Kremlin. Would the cat in the Kremlin jump again? If he did, where and how would he strike? Or could he again be made to purr benignly in the role that had persuaded a lot of Americans (who would now like to bite their tongues off) to call him, fondly, Uncle...
That much, first of all, had to be understood by the world which wondered so desperately which way the Kremlin cat would jump...
...Bloody Professors. The keenest political observer alive in the 20th Century, in a typically Churchillian phrase, once privately called the men in the Kremlin "those ruthless and bloody-minded professors." No Westerner knew much about what went on inside their grisly university, where last week the faculty was doubtless researching the pros & cons of the next possible moves. The West did, however, know what the campus looked like...
Along the narrow footwalk behind the high red wall of the Kremlin, mauve-capped sentries pace slowly. From each of the 19 towers which space the mile-long encircling wall, the blue muzzles of machine guns point out over the huge (pop. 4,000,000), busy city of Moscow. Inside the Kremlin's walls, the tiny wooden church of Our Saviour of the Pine Forest, long since shorn of its bonds to God, nestles beneath the great golden domes and onion-topped towers of the Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedrals, which are now museums...