Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...
Some of them recalled such a portent as Gromyko smiling at the U.N. Assembly's opening session. Others reported that Russian officers, after months of isolation, showed up at a U.S. Army cocktail party in Berlin and were pretty pleasant. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman confirmed that U.S.-Russian talks had taken place-on the "corridor level...
Then things began to happen. With Russian pressure for a new four-power conference and abandonment of the proposed West German state (see above), the West could not afford to have the Bonn talks collapse now. First, the West offered important concessions strengthening the proposed central government's legislative and fiscal powers; this was designed to pacify the Socialists. The wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, said yesterday that the North Atlantic Pact "will prevent Russia from starting a war in desperation to stir up the spirit of nationalism in the Russian people...
Schlesinger spoke before the Seventh Annual Middlebury College Conference on the subject, "A Positive Program for a Democratic Society." He added that "bold programs for economic reconstruction and working incessantly to strengthen our natural allies abroad" would achieve "firm and quiet opposition to further Russian aggression...