Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maximum. The different planes from which West and East looked down on Germany became more evident as the week wore on. The courtesy wilted steadily. By Thursday night the talks had reached the level of restrained acerbity. The three Western powers were asking Russia to quit stalling and tell precisely what it wanted out of the conference that it had requested as a condition for lifting the Berlin blockade. Vishinsky was snapping back that no one could "impose" on him any topics of discussion...
...Western delegates believed that Russia was pursuing the tactic of a maximum, impossible demand at the outset. Vishinsky wanted: 1) re-establishment of a four-power Control Council to exercise "supreme power" in Germany; 2) re-establishment of the Inter-Allied Kommandatura in Berlin; 3) creation of an "All-German State Council"; and 4) reestablishment of the All-Berlin Magistrat...
...West was not sanguine that Russia would accept this position. It expected no dramatic general settlement. But it felt reasonably sure that the Russians wanted a limited agreement. If so, at what point...
...long. At 17 he wanted to join the army, but an uncle took him in hand and put him to work loading at the Black Sea port of Zonguldak. That, says Erato, "is where the worm got him"-in Zonguldak, among the Communist seamen who lured him off to Russia...
...Press Club that "too many sugar things are said in the world today, and I am surfeited with them." (In 1947, when she was India's first ambassador to Moscow, Mrs. Pandit had sweetly said: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations...