Word: bulganin
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...morning, the talk was chiefly of what the final communiqué would say. The foreign ministers met and deadlocked. As the time for the afternoon summit meeting approached, dark storm clouds crept in from the north over the Jura Mountains. Bulganin rattled off a version of the old Russian proposal for a world disarmament conference, which the Russians first made two months ago. It was so familiar that some delegates thought they could even understand the Russian words...
Fifth Day. The conference was all but over. The Russians now seemed subdued. In the foreign ministers' meeting, Molotov reverted to his old stonewalling tactics, answering efforts to clarify Russian positions by simply rereading Bulganin's speeches. The Russians would not agree to link German unification with European security, in the directive for the planned foreign ministers' meeting in October...
...Four met once more, and each delivered speeches declaring they favored increased communication between the two blocs. At the buffet, Bulganin said plaintively to Ike that his arms-inspection plan would not work because it is so easy, for example, to hide a four-engine bomber from air detection. Ike grinned and said: "If you think it is, please show...
Friday night, Sir Anthony Eden, who wanted some accomplishment to bring back to Britain, felt that the West was perhaps losing a chance to begin dismantling the cold war by locking German reunification so tightly to European security. He sped off to Bulganin's villa for dinner, finally talked Bulganin into accepting a statement admitting "the close link" between reunification of Germany and the problem of European security. And in this fashion the final communique was agreed upon...
...Eisenhower double bombshell was cheered by Britain's Eden and France's Faure; but Premier Bulganin of Russia was silent. Our guess is that Bulgy was dumbfounded. The West unquestionably grabbed the initiative at Geneva. The man who did that was our own President Eisenhower. It is hard to imagine how he could have done it more dramatically, or in a way better calculated to put the Kremlin on one of the hottest spots it has ever yet occupied. Our feeling about it all: Hurray...