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...cautious man, about to plunge into uncertain waters, first tests the temperature with an exploratory toe. Last week, playing the part of an affably pudgy big toe, Soviet ex-Premier Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov arrived in London to test the temperature of British hospitality as diplomatic advance man for the forthcoming visit of Communist Bigwigs Bulganin and Khrushchev...
Ostensibly, Georgy had come in his new capacity as Russia's electricity commissar to inspect British power plants, but the truer reason for his trip became clear when the Soviet embassy announced that Malenkov would go along on only a few of the score of trips arranged for the Russian technicians who came to England with him. Instead of peering at generators in the provinces, Commissar Malenkov planned to remain in London generating a few millivolts of good will to break the ice for his bosses...
...jittery Scotland Yard had done its best to keep the visitor as isolated as possible from the madding, and potentially maddened, crowds that might gather to meet the former Stalin henchman, but Malenkov was in no mood to play the wallflower. From the moment that he stepped from the plane at London's airport, doffing a broad-brimmed grey fedora and waving an amiable hand, Malenkov was plainly ready to charm the masses. Thanks to the Yard, there were no masses present, but Georgy made up for their lack by pumping the hands of a cordon of British dignitaries...
...Premier Malenkov dutifully praised the collective leadership that corrected his error in favoring consumer goods over heavy industry. Foreign Minister Molotov again retracted his statement that the Soviet Union had only begun to achieve Socialism, and was grateful to the Central Committee for showing him how "ossified" his foreign policy had been...
...19th Party Congress 3½ years earlier, Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's own choice for party leadership, had also enunciated the principle of coexistence, but had coupled it with forensic saber-rattling about the "brutal fascist regime" in Washington. Last week Khrushchev was all milk and honey...