Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts to divert the scientific minds of this country towards ever-increasing preoccupation with means of destruction, Dr. Seitz unwittingly joins his militaristic counterparts in the Kremlin in spreading the infection now ravishing the body of our tottering civilization...
...Ambassador Alan G. Kirk was summoned to the Kremlin, heard Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky personally charge the U.S. with "an unheard-of violation of the elementary rules of international law." On the day of the Privateer's flight, a "four-engined military plane of the B-29 type" (the Privateer is actually a single-tailed Navy version of the old B-24 Liberator) had flown 13 miles across the Soviet coastline near the Latvian harbor of Liepaja, said Vishinsky. Soviet fighters had swept up in challenge and ordered the U.S. plane to land at a Russian airport. Instead...
...diplomat had stated a truth about Russia which many Western observers have failed to grasp: the Kremlin cares deeply about the morale of the Russian people. Thanks to censorship and secret police, Stalin does not have to worry about "public opinion" in the Western political sense. But morale matters, because it has an effect on how hard the people work, how ready they are to fight, how willingly they submit to the rule of Russia's dictatorship...
This was the point that Voznesensky missed. In the year since he was kicked out, the Kremlin has tried to divert its economic effort a little from steel smelters to pants. Consumer prices have been cut sharply, indicating that more goods were at hand (TIME, March 13). Last week came further news of increased consumer production in Russia...
Truman's invitation was called a surprise, since the President recently labelled Bridges one of the Kremlin's greatest "assets...