Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in Russia, the world has never ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...
...West a favor. "The only people he hurt." said a French official, "are those who were disposed to compromise with him." No longer could "open-minded" Americans and Western Europeans seriously argue that the West could purchase a settlement by a complicated web of mutual concessions. Just as Stalin by his insensate aggressiveness sparked NATO and the Marshall Plan, so Khrushchev had forced the West to recognize that the Berlin crisis would continue until a stout and resolute Western stand made it plain that he could not have his way in Germany. At the same time Khrushchev had made...
...beginning, the Soviet bear hug seemed full of earthy cordiality. At Stalin's old dacha 60 miles southeast of Moscow, Macmillan and Khrushchev jaunted companionably through the pine woods in a troika, sharing a lap robe and chatting with apparent candor about the great issues of the cold war. Next night in the British embassy Khrushchev harked back to the Geneva Conference of 1955 (which Macmillan attended as Britain's Foreign Minister), warmly told the Prime Minister: "It was with your help that the Geneva spirit was created...
...Stalin & Heaven...
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, believes that God has taken Stalin to his breast and all is well with the greatest mass murderer the world has ever known [TIME...