Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
...goods to sell the U.S. Unmistakably, his was the pitch of an ever-reasonable, just-plain-folks Russian competitor bent on straightening out a few minor differences. Unquestionably, his method was part of Russia's newest device -the soft sell that began last year with the assignment of Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington, polished thereafter with headline-catching informal talks between newly ingratiating Nikita Khrushchev and such prominent U.S. callers as Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
...Otto Grotewohl made a formal call on Nasser. Afterwards Grotewohl announced that the two countries, while not generally recognizing one another, would establish "consular relations." West Germany, true to its insistence that it will break off relations with any nation that recognizes Communist East Germany, sent its ambassador over to ask Nasser what was going on. Nasser's aides denied that the boss had promised East Germany anything of the kind...
...group of Chicago businessmen, Anastas Mikoyan last week hinted that the oldest, and once the mightiest, of the disgraced comrades might soon be brought back from Asian exile. Vyacheslav M. Molotov, said the First Deputy Premier, "might even become an ambassador to a larger state...
...conservative man,'' explained Mikoyan. "He thinks that everything past is good and everything new is bad. [But] we have utmost confidence in him as an ambassador just so long as he is not in a position to decide on questions of reform...