Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
Last week the Communist dictator in Belgrade was all soothing reasonableness; history and heresy had turned him round. In a major address before his new Parliament, Tito spoke "with sorrow" of his continued excommunication by former comrades in the Kremlin and the Cominform. Then, urging "good neighbor relations and closer cooperation," he made a tactical overture to the West...
Unlike Svoboda, new Defense Minister Cepicka had no experience of things military. But in the eyes of the Kremlin he had more important qualifications: his loyalty to Russia and his talents as a hatchetman would be useful in speeding up indoctrination of the armed services along proper Communist lines. Meanwhile, Old Soldier Svoboda took up the newly created job of Vice Premier, in charge of physical culture and sport...
Tokuda, the party's No. 2 man, supports No. 1 Communist Sanzo Nozaka in his "soft" tactical line. They have cooperated with other parties and rarely attack U.S. occupation policies. This line has been sharply criticized by the Cominform, speaking for the Kremlin...
...reports, his staff was enlarged to a small army of technicians, supply experts and liaison officers.* Amazed to find a Communist who acted with Tito's assurance and independence, Maclean questioned whether Tito would ever completely relapse into the normal Communist role of "blind unquestioning obedience" to the Kremlin...