Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again the United States delegates will be generally Communist inclined, and again the picture presented by Americans of America will fit the Kremlin image of decadent capitalism. The fault for this condition is on the whole attributable to an unrelentingly unrealistic attitude in the State Department towards conferences sponsored by Communist bloc organizations. The Department fears, in a sense justifiably, that American participation will be exploited for propaganda purposes...
...Abram and, in earlier years, Abromas Sobolevicius, arrived in the U.S. in 1941 by way of Japan. He and Myra became U.S. citizens in 1947. Soble worked as a dealer in animal hair and bristles, but behind his façade of respectability, the U.S. charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster in a ring that operated in the U.S. and Europe for more than a decade. Among the spies working under him in the U.S., charged Justice, was an immigrant named Jacob Albam, who came from Soble's home town of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania. Arrested in Manhattan...
Once his steps ranged beyond his favored places-Sussex, France, Rome-Belloc's zeal turned to disgust. He described Germany as "an odd filter through which civilization gets to the Slavs." He despised the Tyrol ("detestable"), the Kremlin ("quite insignificant"). Angry, this mind spewed along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...
...bond moratorium is just one aspect of a large-scale economic re-evaluation Khruschev is leading. He also suggests decentralization of industrial administration to increase consumption. Although the Kremlin has moved toward restoring the Stalinist foreign affairs technique, economic affairs are moving in new directions...
Russian composers patriotically hymned Soviet heroes during World War II, and the good will they thus banked at the Kremlin gave them a brief period of postwar freedom. But by 1948, an iron hand had closed tightly around Soviet composers. The hand was that of Andrei Zhdanov, cat-cruel Politburo careerist whose ear for music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation...