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...Nehru hastened to add, the fight with Kerala's Reds should not be confused with India's policy of friendly relations with Communist nations. To prove his point, he flew straight back to New Delhi to greet with smiles President Kliment Voroshilov and a large Soviet group arriving for a good-will tour. "Hindi Russi bhai bhai [Indians and Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir...
...Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov, might be acceptable in the Holy City, but not Khrushchev. Reason: many Italians fear the impact of Khrushchev on a land with the biggest Communist party outside the Iron Curtain...
...Khrushchev begged off, saying his sister had tried to teach him to dance long ago, but "my legs just wouldn't move properly." The music was rather slow and dignified, the polkas, waltzes and 19th century Russian ballroom dances that the Czar's court once favored. President Kliment Voroshilov forgot his 78 years to sail off across the floor with Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of the ruling Presidium. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flashed gaily around with one commissar's wife after another. It was a long way from the barricades...
...Chief of state: Kliment Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet...
Last December, when Glezos was arrested again, accused along with 16 others of having abetted Communist spies in Greece, Moscow saw another fine chance to capitalize on Western sentimentality; with a wild beating of propaganda drums, Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov appealed to Greece's King Paul to free Glezos, now a left-wing newspaper editor. But years of servility to the hammer and sickle had finally exhausted the credit that Glezos won by defying the Nazis. Last week, found guilty by a military court, onetime Hero Glezos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, four years' exile...