Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost all the guesses could be true (even that Stalin had unobtrusively died), for anything is possible in Russia. What the West wanted were the hard probabilities, and some of these, at least, soon emerged...
...hard fact was that Molotov and Mikoyan, among the few surviving Old Bolsheviks, remained as members of the Politburo. The probability, as Correspondent Joseph Newman cabled the New York Herald Tribune through the Moscow censorship, was that they were in line for "more important work"-not demoted but promoted. Stalin is 69; he has said publicly that his health is not good. He must plan on some sort of succession...
...Into the Pattern." For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn...
...subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Sherwood said that the late President was "the most complex character" he had even known or read about. The playwright described Roosevelt's relationship to Stalin as a close, personal one upon which the President pinned many of his hopes. It is regrettable that our relations with Russia never achieved a firmer basis, Sherwood concluded...
...general gnawed a stalk of cane. He spat out a wad, and with it his requiescat on the Caribbean Legion: "That damned legion is out of action, anyway. They couldn't get any more dough from Tio Pepe [Uncle Joe] Stalin, I guess . . . That Costa Rican business was just a guerra de galleticas [cookie war] to keep [President] Figueres [of Costa Rica] in power...