Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After travelling through eastern Europe in 1947 and again in 1949, Joseph C. Harsch thinks that "Russia, to make herself secure in her empire, is taking measures which must make her less secure." In a very few pages, he gives one of those fascinating summaries of what the Kremlin worries about its satellites...
...they are altogether unsympathetic with Soviet attempts to woo the Germans, who they recall, killed more than 8,000,000 Poles. The speed of Polish recovery is based on Silesian industry. Should Russia's pals, in Germany set return of that region as a condition of their friendship, the Kremlin would be very seriously embarrassed...
...does see a chance for peaceful separation of the social reform, which the East wants, from Russian domination, which it does not. You may think Harsch underrates the extremes to which the Kremlin will go to stamp out nationalism. But optimistic books by people who usually know what they're talking about are rare these days, and it is reassuring to find one so well argued
...initiative, the West's position seemed a great deal firmer and clearer than it had in some time. Reported TIME'S Washington Bureau: "Washington estimated tentatively that the Western Allies may be on the edge of their most important strategic breakthrough in the cold war since the Kremlin was forced, a year ago, to abandon the siege of Berlin...
Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, has talked recently with President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Bidault. This week he was flying to Moscow in high hopes of conferring with Generalissimo Stalin. Inside the Kremlin, he would try to take a first step toward ending the Soviet boycott of U.N. over the China question, by proposing a top-level meeting that might somehow break the present stalemate in the Security Council. This in turn might ease other international tensions. "The world," Lie said earnestly, "must try again to bring the cold...