Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sober Center. After dozens of toasts to Eisenhower, to friendship, to peace, and, in a memorable moment, to Red China (when all the Americans sat stock-still in their seats, raised no glasses), Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev spoke volubly, turning to Twining and challenging: "You are probably interested in our rockets and our ballistic missiles. You would like to see them, wouldn...
...Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, First Party Secretary Khrushchev, straw hat perched precariously on his egg-bald pate, volubly told a crowd of 75,000 that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade...
Brigadier Lacey explained wanly that the departure, after 74 years, was kept unobtrusive "to foster understanding and friendship between the two countries...
...fragmentary, inconclusive sort of evidence that has troubled so many Americans in the past few years. Lang pointed out that he had served during the war in the Intelligence Corps, in what he called "high-grade security work." He had briefly been a member of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, and assistant treasurer of the socialist Haldane Society at a time when many Laborite lawyers had quit in disgust at its espousal of Communist causes (Lang himself quit in 1950 over the society's support of Communist charges of germ warfare in Korea). His wife had been an open...
...certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might be occasions when Britain alone or Britain and its Baghdad Pact partners, might have to act in the Middle East in situations which do not involve...