Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned from Europe pleased but not complacent. In Paris, the West had held its own against Russian diplomacy. Acheson came home to find the other side of the world-Asia-in need of quick attention...
...that pleasing change of affairs, said Acheson, by ratifying the North Atlantic pact, and by passing the $1,130,000,000 arms program to back it up, before adjourning. But Dean Acheson also knew that there was another explanation of Russia's seeming docility in Europe. The Russian bear had his mind on other game...
...start toward retrieving at least a part of a lost position. Time, and the Russian tide, were working against the Western nations in Asia. What had to be done had to be done fast...
...Ministers also settled the basic problems that had blocked an Austrian peace treaty. The West gave in to a Russian demand for $150 million, payable in six years. Russia would not claim any additional "German assets" in Austria, but would keep the ones she had already seized. In exchange, the Russians with drew their support of a Yugoslav claim to some Austrian territory and reparations. The Yugoslavs would long ago have given up their claim had Russia not deliberately kept it alive for bargaining purposes...
Then she turned to the deadly virus of Russian spring-and-summer encephalitis, injected it into the abdominal cavity of cancerous mice. In about two days the firm, round tumors turned into blobs of pus. All the cancer cells apparently died. But the virus then went on and attacked the nerves and brain. Four days later the mice, apparently cured of cancer, died of encephalitis. Nonetheless, the virus had shown a dramatic differential effect. It went first to the tumor and thrived there before attacking the brain...