Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Indecision. Unsure of his allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports held...
Ignoring his repeated defeats at the U.N., Khrushchev claimed "considerable results" from his trip and called the Soviet anti-colonialism resolution "a great success." He blamed the West, and in particular British Prime Minister Macmillan, for the rejection of his disarmament proposals and warned with a wag of his finger: "If they would like once again to test our strength, we will show them...
...catalogue of Soviet might that followed, Khrushchev let drop the only surprise of his speech. He accused the U.S. of "brink of war" policy for planning to send rocket submarines near the Russian coast and added: "The American generals and admirals cannot but know that our country also has submarines equipped with atomic engines and armed with rockets." U.S. experts took note of Russia's first claim to nuclear sub capacity and were inclined to believe Khrushchev. Best estimates are that Russian subs have only short-range rockets fired from the surface, still have nothing comparable...
...back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take, and hold, a sliver of Algerian territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will undertake to supply...
...Paris newspaper Le Monde reflected the troubled conscience of Frenchmen faced once more by crisis at home and war abroad that could neither be won nor ended. "Certainly these Soviet approaches furnish arguments for those politicians and military men who insist that our army fights for the defense of the West in Algeria," said Le Monde. "But does not experience prove, on the contrary, that it is the continuation of the war which draws Communist influence to Algeria...