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Palaver at State. Both London and Paris essentially agreed with Schroder's estimate. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had a three-hour talk with Ambassador Foy Kohler in which he delivered no warnings, and pushed no harder than before. In Washington, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at his own request, saw Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk. As usual, Gromyko was adamant; at a State Department dinner the dialogue droned on roughly like this...
...reopening Algeria's closed factories, and to see that French doctors and teachers returned to their posts. Though an avowed socialist, Ben Bella insisted that Algeria would have "a mixed economy including both state and private industry." In an hour-long chat with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Ben Bella did more listening than talking. Gromyko hammered at the "wrong" policies of the U.S., and added that Russia "is ready to give you help in all your needs." Ben Bella answered: "All assistance will be highly appreciated because we need everything...
...same argument, designed specifically to scare the daylights out of the underdeveloped countries, that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko used in his opening speech to the United Nations, and that Soviet diplomats were still peddling in the corridors. Several of the newly independent nations of Africa and Asia. whose foreign policy is neutralist or left-leaning anyway, accepted the Red reasoning. Said the representative of Guinea: "The direct colonial exploitation of yesteryear is now being substituted by that of international monopolies...
...facts of life. Marx spent most of his working life in my country, it is true, and based his theories upon his experiences there: but we have spent the years since his death proving in practice that most of his prophecies are false. I must not intrude on Mr. Gromyko's preserve, but I will be very surprised if the young generation of Russians are not rapidly arriving at the same conclusion. Very slowly, but I think perceptibly, the processes of the thaw in international life have be gun ... If imperialism is going out of the window...
...from delinquent members, including cash for the expensive Congo and Middle East policing actions. Despite an advisory opinion by the World Court that delinquent nations should pony up their full share for all the U.N.'s activities, Russia has flatly refused to pay for the Congo operation. Said Gromyko: "Let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will divert a single kopeck to aiding the colonialists to sanctify their criminal deeds" in the Congo...