Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only be assessed in the future. But the effect upon European political and military alignments was already stupendous. He had actually lowered, by some 80 divisions, the combat potential of the world's most menacing army by showing that its colonial conscripts could no longer be relied upon. The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world. Bulganin and Khrushchev, because of him, could not now expect to be received at Buckingham Palace or make the same kind of laughing-boy junket through Asia, and all over Western Europe...
Dulles went to infinite pains to point out to the Kremlin that, even while working toward freedom for the satellites, the U.S. has only peaceful purposes. He recalled a conversation about six months ago with "one of Europe's leading figures." Said the European to Dulles: "It's very important that this satellite situation should develop in such a way that the Soviet Union is surrounded by friendly countries." Replied Dulles: "We have no desire whatever that the Soviet Union shall be surrounded by unfriendly countries. But that is not a matter which is in our control...
Under the watchful eye of Soviet "Observer" Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of Russia's ruling Presidium, stoop-shouldered Palmiro Togliatti played it safe, confined himself to abstruse analyses of Marxist doctrine and repeated pledges of allegiance to the Kremlin. Only a few dissident notes were heard, most of them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly...
...Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist on the satellites, who arrived in Budapest shortly before the Soviet crackdown began...
Even if the Kremlin adopted a democratic form of government, the speaker asserted, the chance of war would not be reduced, since "democracies are no less militaristic and turbulent than autocracies." In a study made by the Research Center in Creative Altruism, founded in 1949 and headed by Sorokin, it was found that democratic countries engaged in war just as much as autocratic ones...