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Lost: an Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist...
...much from the propaganda of coexistence but from a number of other assumptions: that the Russian leaders are in no mood to start a world war; that the capacity to destroy New York and Detroit is not good enough if it results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger World War III; that the new gang is a somewhat sedentary set of revolutionaries (compared, for example, with the cockier, more aggressive new rulers of China). Some...
...Tenth has the solid virtues of sturdy orchestration and an unmistakable Russian flavor. However, its reception at its Leningrad premiere ten months ago was almost as divided as Manhattan...
...British don't want to capture Leningrad and we don't want to take Glasgow." he told Sir William, who smiled and replied diplomatically: "Leningrad is a very nice town, prettier than Glasgow." The other guests got up to go, but Khrushchev persisted, kept tipping his glass with Hayter's. "Now we don't want any war, and we are not afraid of each other." Khrushchev told him. He turned and linked his arm with Chou's. "Now here's a good example of friendship-the Soviet Union and China. That...
...Russians have launched one of their periodic offensives of cultural chumminess with the West. After its invitation visit to Moscow and Leningrad, the Comedie Franchise (France's great national theater) returned to Paris last week with delighted reports of how Georgy Malenkov, Scourge of the Bourgeoisie, had attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing...