Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lessening international tension," called for "further progress" in "reducing the danger of war," and expressed hope for an expansion of economic, cultural and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and Yugoslavia. Tito thanked the U.S. for some $2.5 billion in military and economic aid since his 1948 break with Stalin, and for its help in the recent Skoplje earthquake. To house 10,000 of the 100,000 people left homeless by the quake, Kennedy announced that the U.S. would also send Yugoslavia surplus Army barracks from storehouses in France. Finally, Administration officials let it be known that Kennedy had accepted...
Home's profound skepticism of Soviet policy led him to challenge Winston Churchill when the Prime Minister praised as an "act of justice" Stalin's promise to respect Poland's borders after the war. "On the contrary," said Home, it was "an act of power," and he was soon proved right. Home constantly reiterated that unless the government grasped the fact that "this country and Russia operate under two different sets of standards, there will stretch before us a long vista of political difficulties, misunderstandings and disillusions...
...lead article, as seems the inevitable fate of lead articles in such publications, discusses peaceful co-existence and makes the usual telling points. Joseph Stalin was not a very nice guy. Khrushchev didn't use to be a very nice guy and probably hasn't changed much. Peaceful co-existence, William Henry Chamberlain goes on, is not the same thing as a Russian surrender. Khrushchev has committed himself to refraining from those particular forms of conflict which are most likely to incinerate the globe. The fact that this accomplishment, although limited, is not completely without utility is grudgingly admitted...
Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...
...rudest Low blows fell on the men who were conspiring to turn the world red with blood. Even as Chamberlain's umbrella went to Munich, Low's famous "Rendezvous" showed Hitler and Stalin tipping their hats to each other. Low's cartoons so infuriated der Führer that he sent off official protests to London...