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Best-known Kremlin bureaucrat accompanying Khrushchev will be dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 50, who, as the youngest counselor in the Soviet embassy in Washington at the age of 30, got dubbed "the oldest young man in the capital," became Stalin's Ambassador to the U.S. (1943-46) and then to the United Nations, where he set a U.N. walkout record of 13 days 21 hr. 46 min. Khrushchev says of Gromyko: "If I tell my Foreign Minister to sit on a block of ice and stay there for months, he'll do it without back talk." Gromyko...
...secret sessions, working teas, buzz and bustle of Geneva became a show without an audience. "There is no one left in the grandstands." sighed a Western diplomat sadly. For the time being at least, the three Western foreign ministers seemed to have no more standing as policymakers than Andrei Gromyko himself. Gromyko even refused to accept Secretary Herter's mild suggestion that the foreign ministers resume talking when the U.N. General Assembly opens next month...
...jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev was visibly impressed with Nixon's VIP-eouipped 707, and jokingly invited crack Russian Aircraft Designer Andrei Tupolev, standing near by, to "try to steal" some of the ideas. "It's a very well-made plane," he said...
Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...
...have peace. Mr. Prime Minister, there must be a sitting down at the table and a discussion in which each sees the points of the other. The world looks to you for the success of the Geneva conference, [even though] we have great respect for [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko, who looks like me but is better looking...