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...Macmillan has never taken kindly to his master's voice," observed the News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London after the Russians' insulting remarks in India and Burma...
...engined Ilyushin plane bearing Soviet Premier Bulganin and First Party Secretary Khrushchev had hardly cleared the mountains ringing Kabul when Afghanistan's Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan called a press conference. Daoud's message to the West: no secret political or military pacts had been made with the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan's policy of neutrality was unchanged. The $100 million credit extended to Afghanistan by the departing Russians would be used for peaceful projects, i.e., hydroelectric power, irrigation, etc. In effect, said Daoud, Afghanistan is still free "to shop" with the West. The hint was heavily...
Friends Won. At Moscow Central Airport, bundled to their ears in thick fur coats, Bulganin and Khrushchev hurried from their homecoming plane to an arc-lighted platform, told Russia's radio and TV audience that it had been a "wonderful trip." Said Khrushchev: "In the 370 million people of India, as well as the people of Burma and Afghanistan, we have allies in the struggle for peace throughout the world . . . India is a great and good friend of our country. Just like the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. India stands firmly in the ranks...
Although neither India, Burma nor Afghanistan are colonies, Khrushchev lashed out at "colonialism." "In our speeches in India, Burma and Afghanistan, we exposed the criminal policy of the colonizers." In contrast to Khrushchev, Marshal Bulganin acted like a tired...
...formal state banquet there were toasts in pomegranate juice, and Marshal Bulganin eagerly grasped the chance to align Russia behind Afghanistan in its quarrel with the West's good friend, Pakistan. He had already nosily sided with India against Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. Now he insisted that it was only just for some 6,000,000 Pathan tribesmen and their hill country in West Pakistan should be severed from Pakistan, turned into the state of Pakhtoonistan and joined with the Afghan state. Premier Daoud appeared delighted...