Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the U.S., Western Europe and Russia). That grip, so rigidly imposed during Stalin's lifetime, has loosened steadily over the past decade as the Communist regimes from the Baltic to the Black Sea have slowly found maneuvering room. Writes Rumanologist George Gross in the current issue of Problems of Communism: "A future Toynbee, looking at the 1960s, may well conclude that the central event of the current decade was the disintegration of the Soviet empire. Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe is fragmenting, and this process is bound to continue...
Peking is not only unrealistic about us. Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until 1912 when Mao was already eighteen years of age. To hear the Peking leaders talk talk you would think they were an off-shot of European Socialism. Actually the problems they face and the methods they use are in large part inherited from Chinese history...
...another. Viet Nam he hits headon. In answer to the neo-isolationism of a Walter Lippman, who argues that the U.S. is over-extended abroad, Sulzberger denies that the U.S. sphere of interest is geographically limited. "Greece and Iran," he wrote, "where U.S. determination forced Communist retreats in Stalin's day, were far from American shores-as were Korea, Lebanon, Laos and Viet...
...heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...
...craving for victory in Viet Nam, where it has staked its revolutionary reputation on the success of "the war of national liberation," has been frustrated by the stepped-up American commitment. Traditionally paranoid about foreigners, China has become more isolated and sealed off than any other Communist state (including Stalin's Russia). Led by aging, ethnocentric men with little personal knowledge of the world beyond, it feels encircled and threatened on every side. When it directs its voice to the outside world, its normally strident tones now verge on hysteria...