Word: politburo
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...while it looked as if Dimitrov would make himself head of a Red Balkan federation, but Moscow squelched the idea; lately, the Kremlin was rumored dissatisfied with Dimitrov's insufficiently vigorous opposition to Tito. The Politburo, it was said, sent a special four-man commission to keep an eye on Dimitrov...
...major policy shift towards peace with the West. Andrei Gromyko, explained the U.N. World, had persuaded Joseph Stalin that the U.S. did not want war and that U.S. economic aid to Russia and Eastern Europe might be forthcoming if Moscow offered a genuine demonstration of good will. The Politburo, after heated debate, had accepted the "Gromyko Plan...
...small fry as the actual instructors. On the basis of the evidence so far, only a few of the eleven big fish on trial had actually labored in this vineyard. What the Government was trying to prove, however, was that all of the eleven, who comprised the U.S. Politburo, set the line, gave the orders, and made very sure that a far from innocent thing was being carried...
Minister of Armed Forces A.M. Vasilevsky flung the Politburo's May Day greeting into the sea of onlookers. If he had heard about an impending settlement at Berlin, he gave no indication of it. He cried: "Reactionaries are trying to unleash a new war . . . directed against the U.S.S.R...
Three years ago Hungarian-born Eugene Varga wrote a book which, although violently hostile towards America and Britain, held that there was no likelihood of a depression in the Western countries before 1955. About a year later, the Politburo realized what Varga was saying. He had not only contradicted Marx, but blasted the premises of Soviet foreign policy. Party henchmen went to work (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot...