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Such waspish suspicions were thrust aside in the sudden Gemiitlichkeit of Moscow's reception. On the first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk...
...Ankara airport landed a Russian transport plane, ostensibly out of fuel. Out popped 21 gaily clad Mecca-bound pilgrims, Communists all, yet Moslems to a man. Two of them, their passports showed, were Red army officers. While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...
This was still exile, but in his villa (guarded by blue-clad troops) Bourguiba was comfortable and could speak freely. He showed no hostility toward France. "Mendès-France represents the last chance for Franco-Tunisian friendship," Bourguiba said. "If Mendès-France fails, after him all will be finished...
Give & Take. This time the British offered to evacuate the zone completely, leaving only 1,000 caretaker technicians who would be civilians, clad in mufti. The Egyptian military junta presided over by Colonel Abdel Nasser gave way a little too: formerly they would only allow the British to reoccupy the base in case of danger to any Arab state; now an attack on NATO partner Turkey would be sufficient grounds. The other outstanding differences could be settled if the atmosphere stayed friendly: the British ask two years to evacuate the zone and Egypt is offering less than 18 months...
...morning last week, cutaway-clad Tokutaro Kimura, Tokyo's opposite number to U.S. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, strode onto the flat, tiled roof of Japan's yellow brick Pentagon, past Japanese army, navy and air force officers snapped to attention, and said: "Peace cannot be attained with folded arms . . . It is the duty of our country to complete the arrangements through which it could defend itself with its own hands." With that, Japan officially began rearming...