Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stirrings. Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching called in his assistants for new strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying to guess how the new bomb would influence Stalin's thinking and plans. Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon called AEC officials to closed sessions of his Joint Atomic Energy Committee and talked vaguely of "more bucks" for the nation's atomic program...
That night most of Moscow's foreign diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
Foreign Office wastebaskets in Eastern Europe overflowed last week; Communists were tearing up treaties. Stalin began by formally denouncing Russia's treaty of mutual assistance with Tito's Yugoslavia. Sensing the Kremlin's Tito-indigestion, Russia's satellites dutifully burped: one by one they denounced the treaties with Yugoslavia which had been fanfared to the world...
Tito could not follow Stalin's orders, Mather reported, because he was aware of his countrymen's revolutionary temper, and because of the Marshal's own hatred for aristocracy in any form...
This fact, and the abundant display of Stalin's picture side by side with Tito's portrait in public buildings, convinces Mather that Tito "puts his trust in the intelligence and understanding of his people rather than in censorship," the professor told the CRIMSON...