Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affaires in China's wartime capital, Chungking. In 1946 he headed the truce enforcement commission set up by the Marshall mission. After Marshall's makeshift appeasement failed, Robertson quit the foreign service, went back to banking with the conviction that the Chinese Communists were "ruthless Marxians," and that the U.S. had "sold China down the river...
...Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper-he might get a boost later...
Most of Kenya's white farmers are hard-working men who, if they despised the Kukes as "only 50 years out of the trees," did not ill-treat their labor. Now circumstances are making them as tough and ruthless as South Africans. They are men who have a lot to lose-including their lives. The Mau Mau hit first, now they are hitting back, without drawing fine distinctions between Kikuyu...
...somebody had to be the country's boss. The chief aspirants were Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky, 69, who is old for the job and perhaps not aggressive enough; Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, 43, who rose to favor by marrying Gottwald's daughter, and is opportunistic and ruthless, but thoroughly disliked by other Communist leaders; Security Minister Karol Bacilek, 57, and Deputy Premier Viliam Siroky, 51, both of whom have the initial disadvantage of being Slovaks in a nation predominantly Czech. Even by Communist standards, there is not much to choose from...
...ruthless quarrel over the succession, Stalin showed his cold genius as a political boss: patience to wait, sureness in striking. Instead of attacking Trotsky he began flattering him, suggested he take Lenin's place as principal speaker at the next Party Congress, which Trotsky nobly refused because it might look as if he were stepping into Lenin's shoes before he was dead. Stalin played a humble role, making reverential references to the sick Lenin and to the need for unity, but succeeded in arousing Zinoviev and Kamenev against Trotsky...