Word: withdrawnness
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...Council note the debate, along with a British promise to withdraw the troops. Cried Bevin: "Really, I am not so childish as to fall for that." Another suggestion: let the Council declare that Britain's troops in Greece were no danger to peace but would be withdrawn, anyway. Cried Vishinsky: "I will vote against...
Russia's bargaining position had been improved by an unexpectedly weak U.S. policy. When Washington, yielding to pressure, let it be known recently that U.S. forces would be "gradually withdrawn" from China, American officers and men in the theater lost interest in their jobs, joined the clamor to pull out and leave China to civil...
Promise v. Fulfillment. The Russians had promised to begin evacuating Manchuria three weeks after the end of the Japanese war. Apparently they were keeping the letter, if not the spirit, of their pledge. The Red Army had withdrawn from much of southern Manchuria; by early December the evacuation should be complete. But as the Russians withdrew, an estimated 60,000 Chinese Communists, equipped with Japanese arms, poured in with amazing rapidity; and more were on the way. Chungking's World Daily News asked the $64 question: "Who has made this possible?" The Russians had declined to open Port Arthur...
...chair was Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. Present were Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, Red Army occupation chief in Hungary, and a group of Soviet Ambassadors and Balkan experts. The object of the meeting was to reshape Soviet policy for the Balkans and eastern Europe. Reported decisions: i) the Red Army will be withdrawn by the end of next year and civilian control will be substituted; 2) Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria must be bound to the Soviet economy by stringent economic agreements; 3) nervous opposition parties must be soothed by checking open Communist infiltration...
...tall, intense young writer named Mira Mendelssohn, who helped him on the libretto for War and Peace, the Tolstoyan opera which had its tryout last March. Stalin had promised to let Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produce it, but after its Moscow premiere, War and Peace was hastily withdrawn for reworking. Soviet critics objected mostly to Mira's unwieldy text...