Word: stated
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enthusiastic admirer of the Methuselah of literature, I wish to state that never before have I seen such a precise, artistic, literate, intelligent, penetrating, informative, wellrounded, readable, sympathetic yet critical summary of any man's life, character and achievements on two printed pages...
...laborious job of constructing a picture of Russia's present strength slowly took shape, our Washington bureau went to work. TIME reporters spent hours with Government economists, intelligence analysts, Russian experts in the Commerce, Agriculture and State Departments. Other important bits of information were added by independent scholars at the Russian Research centers at Columbia, Harvard and Stanford universities...
...Russian Desk's endless reading of Soviet publications often seems a waste of time. Newspapers like Izvestia, the official government daily, and Pravda, the Communist Central Committee's daily, offer more propaganda than enlightenment Economic publications like Planned Economy, monthlies like Soviet State and Law, periodicals like Culture and Life and the Literary Gazette are more likely to run a Stalin homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted...
...Lake Success, appeasement was in the air. The British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...fallacy of the buffer state was the fallacy of any settlement arrived at by agreement with the Communists; the agreement was good only as long as it suited an aggressor to keep it. In the Sudetenland and at Munich, the world had had just such a lesson...