Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temple in Alexandria, Va. dedicated to the memory of George Washington, Harry Truman went to work. There will be no new peace overtures to Russia, he made clear, no "parley at the summit" as proposed by Winston Churchill. Strength, not more talk, is what is needed to bring the Kremlin to an honest settlement...
...gist of the Salisbury report was that the Kremlin seemed interested in growing Anglo-American sentiment for renewed atomic talks, though such details as Winston Churchill's statement on the issue (see FOREIGN NEWS) had not yet been printed in the Russian press. The Moscow journal, Soviet State and Law, had exhumed and emphasized Joseph Stalin's two-year-old statement to Henry Wallace: "Peaceful settlements of disagreements between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. are not only possible, but absolutely essential in the interests of general peace." In principle, Russia was not against a limitation on national sovereignty...
This week Correspondent Salisbury conveyed the Kremlin's feeler with full frankness. "The Soviet Union," he cabled, "would welcome an opportunity for careful and serious examination of Soviet-United States problems...
After 60 days of secret dickering, the time had come for the masters of 700 million people to seal their alliance with open panoply. Soviet dignitaries repaired to a Kremlin hall. In their center stood Comrades Joseph Stalin of Russia and Mao Tse-tung of China. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky scratched his name several times. China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did the same. The documents they signed proclaimed that: ¶ For 30 years, Russia and China would aid each other "with all means ... in the event of ... attack by Japan or any state allied...
...hard for the Western world to believe that Mao had spent 60 days in the Kremlin merely to negotiate a variation of the customary treaty between the Soviet Union and its satellites elsewhere. Washington and London wondered what other agreements might have been sealed in secret codicils, a ceremonious exchange of handshakes, or nods of the head between the Russians and the Chinese. "We know something about Mr. Mao Tse-tung and Mr. Chou En-lai," observed a British Foreign Office spokesman, "but, frankly, the gentleman we are most interested in is Mr. Quid...