Word: russias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
...negotiations with Khrushchev-the summit meeting, Eisenhower's visit to Russia, or whatever-should turn into trouble, or even into increased tension between the U.S.S.R. and the West, the position taken by Dean Acheson would become a valuable platform for a Democrat to stand...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, but also failing to do better against the two top Democrats than his one dangerous challenger, New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller. But last week, in a dramatic turnabout which has also been reflected nationally since Nixon's trip to Russia, the Field poll showed that for Richard Nixon, California is once again home, sweet home. Rockefeller also gained in popularity, reflecting a general resurgence of Republican strength among the voters of California. The comparative Nixon-Rockefeller results, against Stevenson...
During Liu's absence in Russia, where he was both bored and homesick, Mao and eleven other comrades founded the Chinese Communist Party. On his return from Russia Liu promptly joined, and for the next 20 years he worked as a Red labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
Nothing But a Line. No less important was the fact that Peking's mulish behavior both at home and abroad had strained relations with its Soviet Big Brother. Devoutly Communist as Peking professes to be, there have always been tensions between Russia and Red China-a fact that emerges clearly from the comments of Russian technicians who have worked in China. "In little ways," says a Soviet chemist, "the Chinese showed us up, and sometimes behind our backs they called us Big Noses, as if we were no better than oldtime imperialists...