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TIME'S July 25 story on Premier Bulganin was most entertaining reading. "A splendidly caparisoned beefeater," "a Soviet Schweppes-man, peddling bottled charm" was top-class light reading . . . One impression I got . . . there seem to be human beings . . . in Russia at the moment...
...GUERRA San Antonio Sir: TIME . . . pictures all the Soviet leaders as "stone-faced," angry and cruel ... I think the expression on Bulganin's face, as drawn by Boris Chaliapin, is not fair! Bulganin looks to me like a most lovable, goodhearted . . . grandfather...
...picnic, the well-fed technocrats of Communism filed into the Assembly Hall of the Great Palace of the Kremlin for another of their little practice sessions in the simulation of democracy. The 1,300-odd Communist Party Deputies were gathered in special session to hear goateed Premier Bulganin read a 10,000-word report on the summit conference at Geneva, to cheer at the right places, to follow it with a day's "debate" in which everyone would cheer or deplore what Bulganin cheered or deplored, after which everyone would vote...
...Great Britain, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden sent the House of Commons into cheers by announcing that Russia's chubby gold-dust twins, Khrushchev and Bulganin, would pay an official (not a ceremonial) visit to Britain next spring. Eden predicted "valuable discussions" in the course of this "immensely important event." In the diplomatic gallery, Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik smiled down appreciatively. The British plan to call a conference of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers beforehand, so as to be able to talk to the Russians in the name of all the Queen's subjects...
...Harriman was greeted at the airport by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce. Asked later by newsmen to comment on the Geneva Conference, onetime Ambassador to Russia Harriman gave an old hand's appraisal: "The same old patter comes out of the Victrola ... a certain familiar ring . . . Bulganin's reply [to President Eisenhower's inquiry about international Communism] was exactly the same as the reply I got in Russia 29 years ago . . . We must keep up our guard ... But I am delighted that the Big Four are talking. It will bring home to the Kremlin leadership...