Word: adzhubei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy last week received unexpected support for the recent charge, made in his interview with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, that Soviet efforts to communize the world are the chief threat to peace. Izvestia derided the President's statement as a "cock and bull story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...
Reading his prepared questions from white cards, Adzhubei's general attitude was more that of a Soviet politician than that of a newsman; he was. by turns, both argumentative and patronizing. "We would be happy,'' he said, "if you, Mr. President, were to state that the interference in the affairs of Cuba was a mistake." Replied Kennedy: "Until the present government of Cuba will allow free and honest elections, it cannot claim to represent the majority of the people. That is our dispute with Cuba...
...reply, Adzhubei said: "If I understand the translation correctly. I have heard a very unrealistic term. I have in mind the term 'East German authorities.' It would be more pleasant to hear 'Government of the German Democratic Republic.' " President Kennedy would not give him the pleasure of hearing the East Germans referred to as a nation. "The reason we have been reluctant to recognize East Germany as a sovereign power is that we do not recognize the division of Germany...
...Nukes. Early in the talk, Adzhubei made the point that the Soviet Union is still bitter toward Germany from World War II: "In the heart of every Soviet citizen, in the soul of every Soviet citizen, coals are still burning from the last war." Toward the end of the interview. Adzhubei tried to score a debater's point against Kennedy by asking him to assume that he was a Soviet naval officer and a veteran of World War II who was watching West Germany rearm. Said Adzhubei: "What would your attitude be?" Said Kennedy: "If I were a Soviet...
...policy on Cuba, clouded since the invasion fiasco in the Bay of Pigs, could be seen a little more clearly last week. To begin with, said President Kennedy, the U.S. is not resigned to Castro; he is still a "threat to peace," the President told Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei. Until Castro holds "free and honest elections," he "cannot claim to represent the majority of the people...