Word: bulganin
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Breaking the Deadlock. That evening the diplomats assembled at a massive banquet in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall. Adenauer sat in the center, flanked by Bulganin and Khrushchev. The three men talked heatedly, emphasizing their points with gestures. At one point, Party Boss Khrushchev leaned across the German Chancellor and gabbed furiously at Bulganin. Then, in two quiet sentences, the Soviet Premier broke...
...think you can have your prisoners," said Bulganin to Adenauer. "It will not be difficult to arrange if we also agree on diplomatic relations...
Konrad Adenauer was smiling thinly when Bulganin commanded silence for the toasts and, with Khrushchev constantly interrupting him, raised his glass and said: "Matters are moving ahead. I suppose all will end well...
...next day the delegations met to certify the agreement. "The Russians looked like a pack of foxes after a successful raid on a chicken yard," wrote TIME Correspondent James Bell. "Chancellor Adenauer, pale and unsmiling shook hands with Bulganin without even looking at him, and stalked out without a word...
...Even the language of the communiqué emphasized the existence of two Germanys, and the Soviet line that reunification of the two is principally "a national problem of the German people," not something for the Western powers to meddle in. In return, Adenauer had got an oral promise from Bulganin that "before you reach Bonn, action to release the German prisoners will be set in motion...