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Mikhail A. Menshikov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation from the Harvard United Nations Council to speak here next Fall...
...assure Russia that it was more than a propaganda trick or a play for headlines, the U.S. engaged in the highest form of diplomacy: it told Soviet diplomats about the plan in advance and in secret. In Washington John Foster Dulles called in Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov (whose reaction, said Dulles later, was "not exactly heart-warming"), and in New York Henry Cabot Lodge went up to the Park Avenue residence of Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev to outline the U.S. offer privately...
Love That Line! Such was the eye-popping pace of Menshikov's diplomacy that almost nobody had time to find out what Smiling Mike was made of. He was born in the village of Posevkino in the Voronezh district of Russia in 1902, graduated from Moscow's Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in 1929, hobnobbed up through the Kremlin bureaucracy to become an aide to Foreign Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan. As UNRRA representative in Poland (1945), Menshikov used U.N. prestige to help dignify Communism's grip, angered idealistic U.N. staffers by twisting U.N. ideals to Kremlin ends...
...Menshikov's biggest diplomatic achievement : a quiet, tactful, inconspicuous campaign as Ambassador to India (1953-57) to persuade Indian officials from Nehru on down that the Soviets were not dogmatic but only reasonable folk who wanted to help. He negotiated a five-year Russo-Indian trade deal, helped get a slow-building but photogenic propaganda Russian steel mill for India, did a bang-up job of setting up Bulganin and Khrushchev's triumphal Indian tour, and even gave Nehru, on behalf of the Kremlin, a personal twin-engined Ilyushin plane. Said one Indian editor: "He didn...
...Soviet Ambassador Menshikov is one of the ablest, perhaps the ablest, of the Kremlin diplomats, a man dedicated to the proposition that no infiltration works quite as well as amiable respectability. He is a man expertly versed in change of pace; yet he is nonetheless a hard-core Red. In Asia, he was denouncing "certain colonial powers, particularly the United States." As if the cold war were a U.S. aberration, he says now: "The Soviet Union has no intention of imposing its ideas on any people by force." From sunup to bedtime, he goes about his rounds with...