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...since the showy junket of Khrushchev and Bulganin three years ago had India staged such a gaudy welcome. At the New Delhi airport last week, crowds surged forward and nearly smothered their guest from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
...stooped and paunchy but still very recognizable figure, the man with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
...Bulganin said that at the end he had voted right, i.e., to uphold Khrushchev's leadership. But "I accepted all subsequent [demotions] as deserved by me and necessary to the party. I have sincerely confessed my mistakes. I have asked the Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
June 13-At a Moscow reception, when asked what became of Bulgy, Khrushchev says, "You can buy a bouquet of flowers and visit Bulganin in a hospital...