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...current English tour, a benefit performance for the Peace Foundation of cantankerous Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 93, campaigning for nuclear disarmament and U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. In glee, the foundation announced its catch. In wrath, the Foreign Office insisted that the benefit was off because "in pursuit of better Anglo-Soviet cultural relations the government cannot allow Soviet artists to be involved in internal politics in this country." In embarrassment, the Bolshoi protested that that was the last thing it wanted. And in righteous indignation, the Peace Foundation made clear that it had got what it really wanted: attention...
Specializing in Anglo-Soviet relations, Ullman will be assistant professor of Government as well as Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House. His book, Intervention and the War (1961) is the first volume of a two-volume study of Angle-Soviet Relations...
RARELY does a work of historical scholarship dealing with a small and relatively unknown segment of international relations become an exciting personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
Ullman will teach on a part-time basis after next year, which he plans to spend in research. He hopes to turn out a sequel to his first volume on the early years of Anglo-Soviet relations, which is scheduled for publication this summer...
...communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent ideas-such as a proposal for an Anglo-Soviet nonaggression treaty -that he had not bothered to mention to Macmillan during more than 20 hours of supposedly intimate and frank discussion. The Cold War. From the moment Macmillan learned of Khrushchev's speech, relations between the two Premiers became a contest in coldness. In such a contest...