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Although President Kennedy has on occasion made polite gestures to Dr. Jagan and his government, no proposals regarding foreign aid or technical assistance have as yet emerged from State Department channels. In his interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...
...assurances from Tito and top officials that Yugoslavia aimed to act as a "moderating force" on the other countries at the conference, Kennan flatly reported to Washington that Tito's speech would be genuinely neutral. But he did not know that when Russia resumed nuclear tests, Soviet Ambassador Alexei Epishev had called on Tito and left him convinced that Khrushchev needed his support. Unaware of the switch, Kennan was shocked and infuriated by Tito's anti-Western speech, which defended Khrushchev and took the Moscow line on Berlin. Kennan fired off angry cables to Washington. Shortly afterward, President...
...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...
...been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring (TIME...
Present Strictures. Alexei's church claims about 95 million of Pan-Orthodoxy's 130 million, and it is entering world Christian affairs for the first time since the Russian Revolution. The application of Russian Orthodoxy for membership in the World Council of Churches will almost certainly be accepted at the council's third General Assembly in New Delhi in November. In a speech that attacked the Vatican, called for disarmament and denounced colonialism, suety, brown-bearded Nikodemus spouted Khrushchev's line...