Word: bulganin
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...chosen to make the appeal was barrel-shaped Carlo Schmid, the only Socialist in the German delegation, and at times an eloquent man. Said Carlo Schmid directly to the impassive pair, Khrushchev and Bulganin: "Every man, woman and child in Germany is behind Dr. Adenauer's attempt to obtain the release of these missing Germans." Nikita Khrushchev was impressed. Perhaps, after all, there is a basis on which to do business, he told the German delegates...
...Adenauer has expressed his desire to conduct the negotiations in a spirit of complete frankness," said Bulganin. "We would like to do the same thing." He repeated Russia's insistence that German membership in the Western alliance had created an "obstacle" to reunification. And as for the prisoners still held in Russia, "there is a definite misunderstanding. There are no German prisoners of war . . . only war criminals from the former Hitlerite army . . . 9,626 such people...
Terrible Things. Slowly, deliberately Bulganin summoned back the terrible memories that had been lying all along just beneath the thin veneer of cheerfulness. "The Soviet people cannot forget ... the shooting of 70,000 people at Babi Yar ... the millions of people shot, gassed or burned alive in the German concentration camps . . . Majdanek . . . Oswiecim . . . Kharkov." It rolled out like a litany. "Smolensk . . . Krasnodar . . . Lvov." The 9,626 imprisoned Germans were paying for those crimes, said Bulganin. If they were released at all, it could only be through negotiations in which Adenauer would have to sit down with the East German Communists...
Adenauer listened tensely, his face even paler than usual, then replied to Bulganin. It was wrong, he said, to blame all Germans for what the Nazis did: "A great part of them were against Hitler and an overwhelming part were against war." No one would deny that the Soviet Union had suffered enormously during the war, said he. "But when Russian troops entered Germany, terrible things happened...
...Moscow. The Russians gave a special performance of Romeo and Juliet, starring the great ballerina Ulanova, at the Bolshoi Theater. The ballet closes with the elders, Montague and Capulet, clasping hands in reconciliation. In the special box, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer rose and grasped the hands of Premier Bulganin and held them high. The audience burst into applause. Next day there was a festive lunch at which Khrushchev got chummy with chubby German Socialist Carlo Schmid, who proved he could outdrink the Russians. Adenauer toasted the "good human relations" he had achieved with Bulganin; and Khrushchev made wisecracks about...