Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, and he could not get in to see the Emperor of Austria. His son is on first-name terms with Winston Churchill, one of the greatest statesman of the age; he was at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right hand during great moments of history; he knew Dictator Stalin better than any other American; he has beaten Dwight Eisenhower at bridge. And the people of the great state of New York have elected him their governor. What more could E. H. Harriman's son want-except the presidency...
...ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security. * In 1941 Harriman was at the Atlantic Charter meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt, and at their later conference in Washington; in 1942 he was with Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, with Churchill and Stalin in Moscow; in 1943 he was with Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca, in Washington and in Quebec; with Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow; with Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang in Cairo, and with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; in 1944 he was with Stalin, Churchill...
Fifteen years ago, when the Nazis and the Communists were such fine false friends, Stalin and Hitler agreed on the direction in which Russia really should expand: down towards the Persian Gulf. In looking southward, the Russian was echoing an ambition as old as Peter the Great's push for a warm-water port...
...these days of precariously narrow majorities in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the 75 Socialist votes controlled by Italy's fellow-traveling Stalin Prize winner Pietro Nenni have always been regarded as forbidden fruit, something to be enviously eyed but eventually rejected. The price always looked too high. Last week Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, one of Italy's shrewdest politicians, embarrassed the Christian Democratic government of Antonio Segni by offering his votes free...
Mary graduated into the intellectual Manhattan of the '303 when all roads seemed to lead to Moscow. She marched in May Day parades "for fun." As a "romantic desperado . . . like all truly intellectual women" (her own phrase), Mary McCarthy found Trotsky her meat. Trotsky saved her from Stalin; when her Irish logic argued that the Great Heretic should be given a fair shake in the jurisprudence of the revolution, she found herself cold-shouldered by her Stalinist friends with whom she had drunk gin for Republican Spain. She, in turn, has cold-shouldered them ever since...