Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral was highly pertinent: kindly Nikita Khrushchev, again wrapping himself in Lenin's magic mantle, was justifying the relatively lenient treatment meted out to his own defeated rivals-former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov-who faced only obscurity, not firing squads...
...Lenin really did hold Martov in deep affection, Martov never went underground, and spoke at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet a month after his supposed escape. He asked for an exit visa and left legally via Estonia. Izvestia's version proved the aptness of a Russian proverb Khrushchev has known since childhood: "Better a clever lie than the dull truth...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk met Moscow's new man in Washington, affable Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, for talks on "procedure" that might lead to actual negotiations this month. "Very friendly," remarked Dobrynin after his first hour's chat. "Relaxed," agreed a State Department spokesman. In Moscow, Khrushchev and Gromyko saw mild hope for a settlement...
Contrary to the impression Gromyko tried to create, none of these points is yet the accepted policy of the West, or even a firm basis for bargaining. Both Khrushchev and Gromyko are still loudly insisting that Western occupation troops be removed from Berlin, to be replaced by United Nations or "neutral" forces. Declared Rusk last week: "We will not treat that as a negotiable problem . . . The facts are that we are in West Berlin, and we are going to stay there." Nor would the U.S. grant Russia's East German satellite the recognition it wants...
...Scranton Tribune in 1959, submitting the work of Tribune Reporter J. Harold Brislin, whose stories helped send ten union leaders to jail. "The most remarkable mission in postwar journalistic history," read the blurb on the 1956 entry of the Hearst Task Force which had gone to Russia and interviewed Khrushchev and missed the big story of the year, the downfall of Premier Georgy Malenkov. The Pulitzer Advisory Board, which handed Hearst & Co. the international reporting award, presumably agreed with the blurb...