Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes, the South Carolinian politician, Stalin seemed different. "Where Molotov is devious, Stalin is direct. . . . He was always in good humor and enjoyed a joke." Jimmy Byrnes now says that he was not fooled, although it took him and President Truman some time to find out Stalin's true nature. "It clearly has been Stalin who has called the tune," writes Byrnes, "and Molotov who has made it last as long as a symphony...
...record of the present is not a straightforward chronicle of things happening and words spoken. It is a vast and cryptographic detective story, a labyrinth of hidden meanings and motives. How could it be otherwise when the chief figure on the international scene, Joseph Stalin, has written: "Words must have no relation to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a mask for concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
These words, of course, had a good deal of Stalin's "wooden iron" in them. That Communist parties in various countries have been quite effectively connected was proved when French Communist Jacques Duclos fired U.S. Communist Earl Browder by writing an unfriendly article about him in Cahiers du Communisme. The meeting in Poland seemed to have decided that the mostly clandestine connection between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness...
...these Americans, the dossier held a clue. Stalin has said: "Two principal but polar systems of attraction are being created in the world: the Anglo-American center for the bourgeois governments, and the Soviet Union for the workers of the West and the revolutionary East...
...Stalin said that in 1925, when George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel in China, Arthur Vandenberg an editor in Grand Rapids and Harry Truman, having just helped to found the Kansas City Automobile Club, was soliciting members for it. Stalin, even then, was thinking along the lines that led to the organization of the Cominform to fight the Marshall Plan...