Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world's differences, as the urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow of peace." Along with the smiles, the Communists offered what appeared to the world's unwise to be a substantial concession: the demobilization of 1,200,000 fighting men (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...manpower to industry and agriculture. This all may be true enough, but the Secretary's hasty appraisal is not the way to counter the Soviet gambit. Countries keeping an appraising eye on the two world foes see perpetual Russian smiles and perpetual American frowns. They are presented by the Kremlin with a fait accompli, a reduction of arms and men in arms. Expecting to see the West follow with some sort of similar action, they see only the scowling countenance of Mr. Dulles, scoffing, skeptical, facilely explaining the not-so-obvious...
...State Department would do well to be more subtle in its public utterances. It may evaluate Russia as it sees fit, but to the world, the United States must appear hopeful, creative, positive, and always willing to meet the Kremlin half-way. Unless the U.S. consciously attempts to create this attitude, the country may too soon learn how to lose friends and alienate people...
...Manners Abroad. Moscow radio announced that the Kremlin had sent an official note to Whitehall concerning what Pravda called this "shameful espionage." With a lack of diplomatic good manners, the Russians went on to quote their protest and the British reply...
...authority on Soviet affairs, Journalist (London Observer) and Author (Cracks in the Kremlin Wall) Crankshaw has had ample occasion to study political terror. But when he turned from the Communists' MVD to the Nazis' Gestapo, he found a vast difference in attitudes. There was a mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled...