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Before his interview with Izvestia's Editor Aleksei I. Adzhubei, who is also Khrushchev's son-in-law. President Kennedy made a deliberate decision to speak quietly, without bombast or belligerence. As a result, the two-hour interview, carried nearly verbatim by Izvestia, produced little earth-shaking news. Much of the U.S. press gave it a better front-page display than did Izvestia (see cut),* but President Kennedy was satisfied that he had accomplished his aim of giving the Russian people a reasoned explanation of the U.S. position...
...Fair Opportunity." The great threat to peace, Kennedy told Adzhubei, "is the effort by the Soviet Union to communize. in a sense, the entire world. If the people of any country choose to follow a Communist system in a free election, after a fair opportunity for a number of views to be presented, the United States would accept that. What we object to is the attempt to impose Communism by force, or a situation where once a people may have fallen under Communism, the Communists do not give them a fair opportunity to make another choice...
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...
While a White House stenographer and U.S. interpreter monitored the conversation, Adzhubei and Kennedy discussed Berlin, disarmament, nuclear testing and foreign trade. At talk's end, Kennedy apologized for having let it run too long. "No," said his guest, "our people are used to reading long stories." Talking later to U.S. newsmen, Adzhubei remained in good humor. The 37-year-old editor gave a thumbnail sketch of himself: "According to the American doctrine, I met the pretty daughter of the man who was to become Premier. That's how my career started." He bristled at suggestions that...