Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other choices. In Warsaw last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (who was in high good humor) pointed out one. At the end of his brisk three-day session with satellite diplomats, he issued a "new" offer to the West which, in gist, proposed that all four occupying powers get out of Berlin -set up a "democratic" German government for all of Germany, and withdraw their troops. (The Warsaw communique added, however, that Russia would still want a hand in running the Ruhr.) This alternative had considerable attractions for the Kremlin: they had experience in setting up governments...
...Russians last week stopped all food trains from the Western zones on which Berlin depends for survival; cut the Western sectors' electricity in half (by halting their own contribution to it); blocked all coal shipments for Berlin industries; forbade the city government to distribute any food outside the Soviet sector; cut off all milk supplies from the Soviet zone. They even cut medicine supplies, but yielded under an American threat to withhold penicillin...
...sergeant called for a lieutenant. The lieutenant called a colonel. The colonel recognized the limousine's passenger as Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky, Soviet commander in chief in Germany. After what had been almost an hour's delay, the marshal drove off, well within the speed limit. U.S. General Lucius Clay sent apologies. But the G.I.s who had slowed the speeder down were reported to be not remorseful...
...real trouble seemed to be that Tito & Co. had been guilty of not always following the line from Moscow. Said the communique: "The Cominform finds that the leadership of Yugoslav Communists creates a hateful policy in relation to Soviet Russia and the All-Communist Union of Bolsheviks . . . They identify the policy of Soviet Russia with that of imperialist [Western] powers and they treat Soviet Russia in the same manner as they treat the bourgeois states . . . The Cominform condemns these anti-Soviet conceptions...
...what was even worse, Tito's secret police had been pushing Soviet representatives in Belgrade around...