Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old man in Los Angeles, a Boston newspaper columnist, and a Phoenix housewife had a simultaneous urge to call up Joe Stalin and ask what he was up to. The Premier wasn't taking calls, said the Kremlin operator, but perhaps when he wasn't so busy he would call back...
Yugoslavia's Bebler, ignoring the fact that his own country might be next on the Kremlin's list of victories, countered Austin in high, musical French. Bebler offered a weaseled resolution that the Council merely: 1) renew its call for an end of hostilities, 2) institute a "procedure of mediation," and 3) invite North Korea to send U.N. a spokesman to tell its side of the story...
Even at economy size, the U.S. armed forces were presumably capable of handling the Korean situation, though it would take time and lives. But what if the Kremlin's masterminds chose to set other small fires around Communism's vast periphery? Without involving themselves in declared war, they could blockade Berlin or Vienna, send Kurds into Turkey or Iran, launch Chinese Communist armies into Indo-China or Burma...
...Moscow, it had slipped, right in front of all 63,000 of its Sunday readers. Last week, it printed a notable example of the crawling, breast-beating apology that the party expects of authors, artists, scientists, musicians and even sportwriters (TIME, Jan. 9) who are caught straying from the Kremlin's innermost thoughts...
Regent Lawrence Mario Giannini, president of the Bank of America, was the lone dissenting vote. He had declared that if the Regents' oath were rescinded "I'm sure that the flags will fly in the Kremlin." Giannini tendered his resignation, saying, "I cannot bring myself to compromise with Communism in any way... (the new plan) is a masterpiece of compromise... I hope it will be effective, but I doubt it... if it is not I'll be glad to organize 20th century vigilantes to uncover Communism...