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...Nikita Khrushchev, fist-waving and shouting interruptions, was startling enough. Last week the prospect loomed that Soviet diplomats the world over may, at the appropriate moment, follow in his shoeless footsteps...
Another Hitler. Reassured by U.S. immigration authorities, Jaanimets stubbornly rebuffed Soviet diplomats who tried to get him to change his mind. "Khrushchev is hated where I come from," Jaanimets said. "All of us are under his iron fist. There is no freedom anywhere. We are his slaves. He is another Hitler." Half of Baltika's crew, Jaanimets insisted, would have jumped ship with him if they had had the chance...
...British parliamentary manner, inflicting heavy damage on an opponent in the kindliest possible manner. While Khrushchev scowled, Macmillan paid tribute to Dag Hammarskjold, then proceeded to deplore on behalf of "the peoples of the world" the collapse of the Paris summit last May. At that, Khrushchev slammed his fist on the table, shot his right arm into the air and bellowed raucously: "You send your planes over our country. You are guilty of aggression...
Still shouting, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and waved his stubby fist in Macmillan's direction until he was gaveled into silence by Assembly President Boland. As the boss of all the Russians slumped back into his chair, Macmillan remarked: "I should like that to be translated if he wants to say anything." A wave of nervous laughter swept the Assembly, and when Macmillan at last finished, he got more applause than any speaker since the opening of the Assembly session...
...work of the United Nations without China." Then, as the spirit moved him, he embarked on wholesale denunciation of the West and all its works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco "the hangman of the Spanish people...