Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles made it clear that the U.S. was deeply concerned about Soviet saber-rattling. There had been a recurring Soviet threat to Turkey since 1945, he said, but present Russian belligerence might be "a smoke screen behind which something more serious might be taking place." Whatever the case, the U.S would stand firmly with Turkey...
...Aleppo!" In the U.N., Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing...
Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the Soviet bloc to recognize the East German puppet regime. After nearly a week of dithering, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano concluded that, whatever the cost, he could not back down on a public and frequently repeated threat. At week's end Brentano called in the Yugoslav ambassador and handed him his walking papers...
...asserted that a unilateral, or even a negotiated withdrawal of troops would only indicate to the Communists that America might not consider an invasion of Europe a threat to U.S. security...
...situation is basically unstable, Brzezinski stated, for as the external threat fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...