Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pundit Lippmann, this conception and plan "is fundamentally unsound . . . 'a policy of holding the line and hoping for the best' . . . [which] cannot be made to work unless we get all the breaks . . . [i.e.] the Soviet Union will break its leg while the U.S. grows a pair of wings." Asked Lippmann: "Do we dare to assume that...
...policy can. be implemented only by recruiting, subsidizing and supporting a heterogeneous array of satellites, clients, dependents and puppets ... a coalition of disorganized, disunited, feeble and disorderly nations, tribes and factions around the perimeter of the Soviet Union . . . [which] cannot in fact be made to coalesce . . . a seething stew of civil strife...
Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
...threat that the Red Army may advance still farther west . . . that gives the Kremlin and the native Communist parties of western Europe an abnormal and intolerable influence in the affairs of the European continent. Therefore, the immediate and decisive problem of our relations with the Soviet Union is whether, when, on what conditions the Red Army can be prevailed upon to evacuate Europe...
...debatable ground-and had failed to note that the Red Army was built by Russia's Marxist rulers. And did Lippmann mean to say that Stalin's objectives were no wider than Peter's old-fashioned imperialism? It seemed clear to many people that Soviet Russia was a new-fashioned force...