Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...Clifford saw it, the President would have nothing to lose. If Fred Vinson, in man-to-nTan fashion, could get some reassuringly peaceful word out of Stalin, the whole world would cheer. It might even be the miracle needed to keep Harry Truman in the White House. Jubilantly Mr. Truman approved of the idea...
...Truman's surprise and dismay, Marshall flatly opposed it. The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France had just finished eight weeks of fruitless talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look...
...though thy portrait I retouch, Respectable señor, I could not love thee, Chum, so much, Loathed I not Stalin more...
When the U.S. tries to guess at how the Kremlin estimates U.S. strength, it is obviously dealing with the probable, the possible and the fantastic. Who, for instance, can say what effect the police state mentality has on honest strategic information? Do they tell Stalin what he wants to hear? Or do they tell him the truth...