Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar's most remarkable political interviews, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey talked across a Kremlin table last week for eight hours with the stumpy, gap-toothed man who rules the Russians. Humphrey, like such other recent Kremlin visitors as Adlai Stevenson and Pundit Walter Lippmann, came away convinced that Khrushchev knows what he wants, and intends to get it. And what Khrushchev wants right now, first and more than anything else, is Berlin. "I do not think that war over Berlin is likely," said Humphrey in London after the interview (see Foreign Relations). "But I would...
...their own automobiles, which war would all destroy"). And one afternoon, checking in with the Soviet Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Nations, he was told: "No need to take off your coat." Why not? The reply: "You are to be received by the First Minister at the Kremlin." It was then 2:30. By 3 o'clock, Humphrey and Khrushchev were deep in talk...
...each time Khrushchev waved him back to his chair. At 7, dinner (beef, ham, wild fowl, etc.) was brought in, topped by a toast in Armenian brandy. At dinner's end, Humphrey made a forthright suggestion. "I agree," said Nikita Khrushchev, and the two tromped oft to a Kremlin lavatory, were soon back at the conference table. At 9, Anastas Mikoyan dropped by, and the talk returned to trade. At 9:30 it occurred to Humphrey that his wife might be worried about him; a Kremlin aide called her at the National Hotel. And finally...
...West German Foreign Office said the new rough talk from the Kremlin was an attempt to sow fear and divide the allies ahead of the NATO conference in Paris next week...
Died. Georgi Damyanov, 66, Kremlin-stooge President of Bulgaria since 1950; in Sofia...