Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What then is Mr. Stalin's price, Mr. Ambassador ... for what you people call East-West coexistence...
According to United Nations World (not officially connected with U.N.), the question was asked a year ago of Andrei Gromyko by a "top-ranking" U.S. businessman. Gromyko's reply pictured Stalin as deeply hurt because the U.S. had cut off Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with...
...short, no change. What seemed to have been forgotten by Stalin and Gromyko (and United Nations World which devotes itself to breathless inside stories about U.S.-Russian relations) was that there was no longer a seller's market for Russian favor...
George Bernard Shaw, pixie, playwright and pundit, turned 93, ate some birthday cake and let go a thought or two on politics ("Stalin [is] the mainstay of peace in Europe") and his own advanced years ("Thank God, I've reached my second childhood"). London's Liberal News Chronicle concurred only in the latter view. "[Shaw]," it wrote, "is now the grand old man of English letters but not, alas ... of English politics. In that field he has said wittily a greater number of silly things than any intelligent man is entitled to say in ... a lifetime...
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world...