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...Hear, Hear." Erratic Patrice Lumumba emerged from the Premier's residence only long enough to attend a 9 p.m. "luncheon" put on by the diplomats from Guinea, who still wistfully hoped to propel him back to power. Looking dour and wan, he declaimed his standard piece: the Soviet Union was the only nation interested in peace; he had asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests...
Even the top-priority luncheon thrown for him by his great and good friend (and fellow Lenin prizewinner) Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist, was not all K. had hoped for. Present were about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...
...religion issue to stimulate the sympathy of the state's Catholics (39%), as well as the many Jews and Negroes, who are sensitive to bias and bigotry. (Said Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., leader of the Democrats' nationwide voter-registration drive, in a speech at a Levittown luncheon fortnight ago: "If they get a Catholic this time, they'll get a Jew the next time, then a Negro.") Khrushchev helps the Republicans, and so does the memory of Cabot Lodge just across the river at the U.N. (By contrast, Lyndon Johnson's name is conspicuously missing from...
Inviting himself to a three-day 60th-birthday celebration for Kekkonen, Khrushchev at first showed no signs that he was really trying to be ingratiating. At a presidential luncheon, which the Finns hoped would be off the record, Khrushchev told the Finns that Russia definitely intended to make it her "business" what...
Screwing up his pride at a return Soviet embassy luncheon. President Kekkonen toasted Soviet-Finnish friendship but said that domestically, Finland would never forsake democracy, "even if the whole of the rest of Europe went Communist." Callously ignoring the presence of Hertta Kuusinen, Finland's Communist battle-axe (whose father is a member of the Soviet Party Secretariat in Moscow), Khrushchev amicably agreed: "I am sure nobody wants Communism here...