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...sunlight: the world, as well as the Russians, gained by that. And it was a time of reading of intentions. The reading was optimistic. "There ain't going to be any war," proclaimed British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, arriving home. "A new era," said Russia's Bulganin. "There is evidence of new friendship in the world," said Eisenhower...
...year ago, for the grim Geneva Conference in the week of Dienbienphu, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had demanded and got a closed, bulletproof limousine. Last week, the Russians climbed into open cars and toured Geneva like politicians running for the town council. Premier Nikolai Bulganin beamed and waved his grey fedora; Party Boss Khrushchev mugged, grinned and snapped pictures like a zealous tourist...
When Hitler attacked Russia, Bulganin, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, made a name for himself by being the first high Soviet official to "volunteer" for war service at the fighting front. Bulganin became the civilian organizer behind Marshal Georgy Zhukov's defense of the Soviet capital. Since he has become Premier, his biography has been edited to paint a picture of Bulganin at the barricades. He was never at the barricades but he-and Moscow's embattled citizenry-did the necessary job. As a reward, Bulganin got a general's rank...
Corks & Coexistence. On his own, Bulganin has at times surprised Western diplomats by his uninhibited outspokenness. Once, when the other committeemen were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight, I am the Soviet government." Bulganin's pet refrain since he started partygoing has been that the Soviet Union is determined to avoid war. "Down with war," he shouted at a recent reception. "I say that as commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." Later, a champagne cork popped loudly, and Bulganin quickly added...
...acted as if the public, left to its native good sense, could not be trusted to achieve the proper expression of mixed skepticism and hope. But the public was the Big Fifth at Geneva. In the preconference remarks of both the U.S.'s Eisenhower and Russia's Bulganin was an implied acknowledgment that the public expected and demanded something of them...