Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertone of provocation, he told his weekly press conference quietly that it would become the duty of the members of the U.N., which would include the U.S., "to oppose" the Russian volunteers. Privately he flashed a cable to Ambassador Bohlen instructing him to make absolutely sure that the Kremlin did not misunderstand U.S. intentions: if the Russians moved troops into the Middle East the U.S. would oppose them with arms. At an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that morning the President heard out the reports of his staff, picked off his glasses, and said grimly: "If they move...
...understood what the U.S. meant by promising "to oppose" the Russian volunteers, a promise that Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. reiterated before the U.N. General Assembly later in the week. But no one in Washington thought that this quiet victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could sweep across Western Europe-and punctuated by a new high...
...with the talk of the 'disastrous failure' of the Dulles foreign policy in the Middle East." "It is generally conceded here that the Soviet Union and Egypt have scored a tremendous victory," the New York Times's James Reston reported nonsensically. In a piece called "The Kremlin's Shattering Triumph," Joseph and Stewart Alsop ranted: "Even among the Administration policymakers the almost hysterical emotions generated by pique against the British and French are now beginning to subside." Two days later the Alsops swung even more wildly: "The most strategically vital region of the modern world...
...week long the Kremlin put on a spectacular display of diplomatic pinwheeling which included a little bit of everything: threats, retreats, explosions, entreaties and insults. Some of it was planned confusion. But for the first time in living memory, Western observers also detected signs of frantic disorder in the Kremlin. On two occasions, the terrible-tempered Nikita Khrushchev shouted such insults at Western diplomats that they turned on their heels and left (see below...
Only in the Middle East did the Russians' bewildering profusion of moves seem astute and controlled. The Kremlin began the week counting out loud the number of Russian "volunteers" begging to set off for Egypt. At midweek, the counting abruptly ceased on receiving plain warning from President Eisenhower that the U.S. would oppose Russian intervention in the Middle East. Next day Premier Bulganin piously denied to France and Britain that Russia "follows in the Near East some sort of special aims directed against the interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit...