Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin were awarding prizes to the satellite with the crudest, orneriest manners toward the West, the Order of Lenin with quadruple clusters would go to the Communist bosses of Rumania. For months the Rumanians had been subjecting U.S. diplomats to insolent treatment, harassment and name calling, as well as imposing severe travel limitations on the U.S. embassy staff...
...years Dmitri Shostakovich had been trying to "reconstruct" his composing to make his music fall more sweetly on the Kremlin ear. It seemed that was not enough. Last week he was told how fast he should compose. Complained the Soviet Composers Union in Pravda: Shostakovich had not worked hard enough to finish his new opera on the 1917 Russian Revolution, October. While comradely criticisms were being passed around, piped Pravda, the Composers Union had shown too much "complacency" about the whole matter itself...
...Paul Hoffman, head of ECA. He spoke in Washington to a group of businessmen. His words were for the impatient, the decriers, the calamity howlers. "If the Marshall Plan had not been in effect you would have had part of Western Europe at least under the domination of the Kremlin and we would have spent much more for increased defense than we have spent for the Marshall Plan. Now, if we carry on a smart, resourceful cold war, the kind of war free people can carry on, Russia will be contained...
Last January, led by Peking and Moscow, the world's Communist bloc recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." It was more than the Kremlin had ever done for the Communist rebels of Greece. Over the past several weeks, arms and other supplies were reported passing from Russia and China to the comrades in Indo-China. The stakes in Southeast Asia were big-as big as the global struggle between Communism and freedom...
...long-distance telegraph or telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...