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...Compendium. Russia's major diplomatic effort of the week was an 8,000-word note to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan signed by spade-bearded Premier Bulganin. Ostensibly an appeal for restoration of friendly relations, the note was a compendium of familiar Russian gambits. In it, Bulganin:¶ Hinted that Russia would welcome a Big Four conference on the reunification of Germany. Expressed new interest in Sir Anthony Eden's Geneva proposal for a demilitarized zone in Central Europe. ¶ Reminded Macmillan that Britain's "comparatively small and densely populated territory" is, by recent British admission, virtually...
...said that plans for the Festival included sports, cultural activities, vodka, tea parties with Khrushchev and Bulganin, and travel. "You name it, they've got it," she concluded...
...nations, backed by U.S. nuclear power, to regard an attack upon one as an attack upon all. Europe's confidence in that commitment remained strong and sure-as testified by the resolute calm with which Denmark and Norway fortnight ago, and The Netherlands last week, met Bulganin's dark threats of H-bombs...
From Norway, which was united in indignation, Bulganin switched his diplomatic drumfire to Denmark and Sweden. Sweden, neutral since 1814, was outraged by the Russian intervention in Hungary, and recently shaken by a succession of espionage cases involving the Russians. Sweden was advised to quiet the anti-Russian tone of its press. Denmark, which like Norway has bases but forbids NATO planes to occupy them except under threat of imminent attack, got a Bulganin note eight days after Norway's. It was just as blunt: "If war is opened against the U.S.S.R., the annihilating power of modern weapons...
...deal with it: the U.N. Disarmament Commission meeting now in session in London. But the Russian notes suggest that more is involved than a prudent looking to their defenses. Russia, on the diplomatic defensive since Hungary, is apparently trying to go over to the attack. It has decided, said Bulganin, to "strengthen most decisively the Warsaw Pact, whether the imperialists like it or not." The Soviet news agency Tass warned that "a new aggression against Egypt" would create "the direct threat of a broad military conflict." In Moscow last week, Hungarian Puppet Premier Janos Kadar reached an agreement to "strengthen...