Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens were amused. Said the New York Times: "Moscow's reply is ... another demonstration that the Russian government is not interested in objective, or what it calls 'technical' facts, but only in concocting its own 'political' facts to further its own aims. As long as the Russian government persists in that practice, a real understanding with Russia will be well-nigh impossible...
...gist: the Western powers agreed to abandon the use in Berlin of their Western German money. Russian Zone money under four-power control would be used in Berlin...
Barbed Fishhooks. Smith's first impulse was to tell Stalin he had a deal. Thirty months in Moscow, however, has taught Smith caution. He told Stalin that he and his colleagues would cable the proposal to their governments. In Washington, experts sat up all night prodding at the Russian text in search of diplomatic booby traps, found none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists...
...Real Issue. Behind the Kremlin talks of the past month and the sparring in prospect over the coming weeks lay the real issue: the long-range Russian effort to win control of Europe...
...that "in many lands there are Communists who are practicing Christians," i.e., who believe in Marxist economic interpretation but repudiate Marxist atheism. When a Soviet correspondent asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for examples of such "Christian Communists," he was silenced by Canterbury's reply: "The members of the Russian Orthodox Church in your own country." The Archbishop added, "Not all anti-Communist forces are necessarily good forces...