Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were not imprudent hopes, and they were ardently shared by all the West. Nevertheless, there were signs last week that the West must guard against overestimating Russia's strictly limited desire for settlement. One such sign was furnished by United Nations World, a monthly magazine not officially connected with the U.N. but devoted to U.N. affairs. In an article quoted by major U.S. newspapers, the magazine said that Russia had decided on a major policy shift towards peace with the West. Andrei Gromyko, explained the U.N. World, had persuaded Joseph Stalin that the U.S. did not want...
...sudden realization that the U.S. wants peace; Russian leaders must have known that all along. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith last week recalled a revealing remark Stalin had made when Smith was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Stalin had told him: "We do not want war any more than the West does, but we are less interested in peace than the West, and therein lies the strength of our position...
...everyone had expected, Andrei Vishinsky turned down the West's proposal for a Germany united on the basis of the Bonn constitution. He took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
...free elections for a municipal council, but he wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers to run its affairs...
Time also changed the Paseo. Flashy new hotels rose behind the Paseo's stately trees. Wealthy families moved west to Chapultepec Heights. Automobile agencies hung their neon signs in the old mansion windows. Finally, city engineers decided that the 19th Century Paseo should become a modern six-lane concrete ribbon...