Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they ever kept, out of nearly 40. He has no hope they will keep any which now it would be good policy to seek. When the Russians blocked East-West trade after Potsdam, he began to lose the last vestige of hope for agreement. When he learned that the Kremlin was concealing from the Russian people all the facts about U.S. wartime aid and U.S. offers for reconstruction, that last vestige disappeared...
...week's end, both the White House and the State Department were still mum about their plans. It was a considered silence: any plea to the Kremlin born of desperation would be interpreted as a sign of weakness and fright, and a sign of weakness in this uneasy hour might prove an ever-greater risk to peace than an H-bomb...
...through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might change that fact...
Obviously, the Kremlin would not have substituted this unpopular policy for the popular economic argument if it had not put military considerations first. The Kremlin has realized far more clearly than the West that in Asia and in Europe the military stakes are far more important than the economic stakes. A prosperous area will not necessarily be a defensible area. An area which the West resolutely and intelligently prepares for defense can, in time, be made into a prosperous area...
Bonn's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer finally apologized to Paris for Dehler's sound-off and minimized the whole incident. The Frankfurter Allgemelne soberly observed: "With what satisfaction the mighty boss in the Kremlin must have observed the goings...