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President Kennedy last week received unexpected support for the recent charge, made in his interview with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, that Soviet efforts to communize the world are the chief threat to peace. Izvestia derided the President's statement as a "cock and bull story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...
Snow flurries and the November wind made the days bitter with cold, but crowds still clustered around Moscow's hundreds of outdoor bulletin boards to pore over the tacked-up tearsheets from Izvestia, the Soviet government's official newspaper. Never before had Russia's citizenry been exposed to such a story: an interview with the President of the U.S., giving the American viewpoint on the cold war and detailing how the Soviet Union was endangering the peace...
Before his interview with Izvestia's Editor Aleksei I. Adzhubei, who is also Khrushchev's son-in-law. President Kennedy made a deliberate decision to speak quietly, without bombast or belligerence. As a result, the two-hour interview, carried nearly verbatim by Izvestia, produced little earth-shaking news. Much of the U.S. press gave it a better front-page display than did Izvestia (see cut),* but President Kennedy was satisfied that he had accomplished his aim of giving the Russian people a reasoned explanation of the U.S. position...
...international edition of Izvestia that was airmailed to the U.S. did not carry the Kennedy interview at all. The edition that arrived in the U.S. the next day did run the story, but tucked it away on page...
...policy on Cuba, clouded since the invasion fiasco in the Bay of Pigs, could be seen a little more clearly last week. To begin with, said President Kennedy, the U.S. is not resigned to Castro; he is still a "threat to peace," the President told Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei. Until Castro holds "free and honest elections," he "cannot claim to represent the majority of the people...