Word: adzhubeis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of Government-managed news still a hot one, he began his talk with the greeting "Fellow managing editors." In mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret Soviet code name for the operation...
Working Atheist. The Soviet embassy informed Msgr. Jan Willebrands of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (who had escorted Slipyi out of Russia) that Adzhubei would like a private audience with the Pope. The Vatican, wary of what the Communists would do with that in Italy's general election next month, refused, and suggested a general audience with other Vatican visitors. Adzhubei rejected that proposal, but the Vatican's subtle chief of protocol, Msgr. Igino Cardinale, figured out a deft compromise. Since officials of the Balzan Foundation* were scheduled to visit the Pope with the formal announcement that...
Dressed in dark suit and grey tie, and accompanied by his wife Rada in black veil and grey suit, Adzhubei showed up with other reporters in the Vatican's gilded throne room, listened as the Pope spoke of the church's positive neutrality in the cold war, bowed his head when John gave his blessing. "A beautiful speech," said Adzhubei, who throughout his visit to Rome proudly labeled himself a "confirmed atheist...
...Proposes . . ." After other newsmen left, Adzhubei and Rada were ushered into the papal library, there spent 18 minutes alone with John and his interpreter. Adzhubei told the Pope that he was known and admired in Russia as a fighter for peace. John answered that he was only doing God's will. The Pope recalled his own journeys through the Balkans as a Vatican diplomat. Adzhubei apparently gave the Pope a personal message from Khrushchev, who had instructed the Russian members of the Balzan Foundation to vote the Peace Prize to John, and had sent word that he was delighted...
...will-and may well establish formal diplomatic relations with Moscow some day. Last week, L'Osservatore Romano front-paged a theoretical article, written by Msgr. Cardinale, on the general necessity of consular relationships between sovereign states. Asked at a Rome press conference about exchanging consuls with the Vatican, Adzhubei certified that it was "a good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei, who earlier had noted that "the Pope does not bite,'' shrugged, and quoted in answer the 15th...