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Mikoyan had more contacts with foreign civilians than any other Soviet leader (he visited the U.S. in 1936, returned with enthusiasm for frozen foods. Coca-Cola and Eskimo Pies), and was popular with British businessmen, who refer to him as "Mikky." He junketed with Khrushchev and Bulganin to Red China last September, but Aneurin Bevan, who met him in Moscow, noted that his influence seemed to be waning. His ministry was criticized for boosting the sales of vodka while the party was carrying on an anti-alcohol campaign. Recently his trade representative in Georgia was tried for "speculation and cheating...
...platform were Communist Bosses Malenkov and Khrushchev and Marshals Bulganin and Voroshilov. Beside Molotov. under a placard proclaiming, in French and Russian. Franco-Russian friendship, sat French Communist Poet Louis Aragon. Blustered Molotov: "We shall not be caught napping by ratification of the Paris agreements ... If need be, the Soviet Union will demonstrate its right and the righteousness of our cause. The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along...
...Everywhere," shouted Russia's Marshal Nikolai Bulganin last week to the crowds gathered in Red Square to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, "the warmongers are still continuing and increasing their activity." Such words are as expected a part of revolutionary celebrations as references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
Suddenly a champagne cork popped across the room and struck Bulganin on the head. "Let's use those instead of cannons," he laughed...