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Pretexts to Stay. Talking to friends, Churchill has explained that he has stayed on largely in hopes of a cosmic conference, which would enable him to climax his career as a peacemaker. But Eisenhower's disinterest, and Malenkov's fall, have made such a parley increasingly unlikely. The Yalta documents are not calculated to increase U.S. desire for more of such personal diplomacy...
...Moscow last week made public a wire that Churchill sent to Molotov last July 4: "I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Malenkov or, as far as I can remember from the war years, any of your political colleagues . . . Would it appeal to you ... if we met in a friendly fashion, without agendas, for the sole purpose of trying to find a sensible way of living side by side? I beg to be informed about what you and your friends think about it." Molotov replied: "We think such a friendly contact could help." But first Geneva, then...
Talking Big. When Malenkov took over, Rakosi was ordered to get away from the salami. He yielded the premiership to rotund Imre Nagy (rhymes with budge), another oldtime Hungarian Communist, who was a Hungarian language broadcaster in Moscow during World War II. Nagy talked big: "The decision to make Hungary a country of steel and iron was an expression of megalomaniac economic policy." Past faults of the party he ascribed to "one-man leadership which relied on a narrow circle, and the silencing of criticism and self-criticism." Nagy ordered more consumer goods, relaxed police controls and let the collectivization...
Switching Fast. After Malenkov's demotion and Russia's switch from consumer to heavy industry last month, a similar switch in Hungary was only a matter of time. Last week it came in the form of a 6,000-word article in the party organ Szabad Nep denouncing Nagy and all his works. It accused Nagy of deceiving "the working classes with cheap demogogic promises" which caused them to loll idly "waiting for the plums to drop into their mouths," charged him with "rightist deviationism" and with "encouraging nationalism and chauvinism." The language of the communiqué might...
...week's end reports were leaking through of widespread arrests among Nagy followers in Budapest. As for Nagy a few days after Malenkov's fall, he had taken to his bed with a "serious heart condition...