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...President Kliment Voroshilov, accepted flowers from a covey of little girls, and acclaimed the success of their mission to Britain. But it was soon obvious that their most unforgettable moment was the roughing they got at the ill-starred Labor Party dinner (TIME, May 7). Said Premier Nikolai Bulganin: "However strange it may be, the only organization which tried by its conduct to spoil the atmosphere of our visit was the organization of the Laborites. They were given a well-deserved rebuke...
Divided Impression. The fate of the prisoners, and Nikita Khrushchev's thin skin on the subject, seemed to be the most lasting impression of the trip. In the London Star Labor's Elder Statesman Clement Attlee recorded his personal impressions of B. and K. Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China...
Throughout, Bulganin sat silent. At midnight the dinner broke up, in an atmosphere of sullen ill-feeling. When someone proposed a toast to "our next meeting," Khrushchev gave him a cold stare. Later, he growled: "It is far more difficult to discuss things with you Labor leaders than with the Conservative government of this country...
Second Thoughts. Next day, Khrushchev was still as surly as a Siberian bear. He muttered that if this was British Socialism, he preferred to be a Tory. At a lunch given by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Khrushchev interrupted another of Bulganin's speeches to grunt: "And I hope next time we come, the Labor Party will be more friendly." When Brown came up to offer his hand, Khrushchev curtly said "Nyet," and turned away...
...their farewell press conference in Britain, B. & K. openly ridiculed the disarmament subcommittee. Bulganin hinted that it might better have been called the "subcommittee on concealing the arms race." When someone asked whether the Soviet Union would allow inspection teams to check Russian nuclear-weapon stocks, Khrushchev said jauntily: "Our comrade Gromyko has gone grey answering questions like that." Since there is not a grey hair in Gromyko's head, this got a laugh. Khrushchev then said: "It is my prophecy he will become grey by the time they agree...