Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implications were plain: Khrushchev was keenly aware of the tug of capitalist freedom. And the implications lent special weight to Dulles' words-before-the-fact definition of the basis of U.S. foreign policy. "The government which is responsive to the will of the people, which admits of diversity and freedom of thought, is the government which has the future ahead of it," he told the newsmen. "I don't put any dates on these things. I don't say what is going to happen in one year, five years, ten years, but I am confident that that...
...Notions. Old Bolshevik Molotov, for 13 years Soviet Foreign Minister and for 51 years a 'hardheaded, hard-bottomed servant of Communism, was singled out for special attack. It "cannot be considered accidental" that he had repeatedly come out against "measures to improve relations between the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia," and was "against normalization of relations with Japan." He was opposed to the "different ways of transition to socialism" thesis, and "denied the advisability of establishing personal contacts between the Soviet leaders and the statesmen of other countries." The anti-party group was "shackled by old notions and methods," and Molotov...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...
...flurry of commentators' speculations on the key role of the Red army. But U.S. specialists on Soviet affairs do not go so far: they point out that Zhukov was just one of five alternates who automatically moved up to fill a vacancy; had the army exacted a special price for its support of Khrushchev, some other marshal would presumably have moved up to alternate. U.S. specialists discount Zhukov's own desire for independence: he has always been an obedient party...
...Special trips to other theatres in the area may be sponsored later in the summer. One possibility, according to Bernard Wiseblatt, who is in charge of the service, is a Saturday afternoon trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut...