Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement yesterday on the Bulganin-Eisenhower exchange, Stevenson sought to establish that Eisenhower is the Kremlin's choice in the elections. If so, why did Bulganin come to Stevenson's side on the H-bomb issue...
...Kremlin had to decide: Was it worth it to hound the revolutionaries into the hills, to fight for months a war of repression while the world looked on? Or was it better to cut their losses, settle for what control they could keep over Hungary, and take their chances at restraining other satellite nations from seizing the same opportunity? In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world...
Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week...
Those who wait for Communism to change, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev crowed not long ago with a bravado that impressed much of the world, "might better wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." The eerie sound that penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...
...acts by the 1,500,000-satellite troops who have been equipped with Soviet arms as the Communist answer to NATO. This discovery comes on top of Russia's widely advertised reduction of its own army by 1,200,000 men. (The Budapest fighting also showed that the Kremlin cannot count on the loyalty of all Russian soldiers...