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...They can't take that away from me," he stood at a buffet table, nibbling at hors d'oeuvres and glancing frequently at the enclosure where Khrushchev was shaking hands with members of the diplomatic corps. Voroshilov nipped through the gap between tables and joined Anastas Mikoyan and several friends who were obliged to clink glasses with him before a protocol officer steered him out of the exalted enclosure...
Satanic Gossips. Some delegates sounded like gossip columnists on a satanic news sheet. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan claimed that Albania's Premier Mehmet Shehu said Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva told the Congress that Lazar Kaganovich was personally responsible for the execution of hundreds of railroad executives in the 1950s; the Ukraine's Nikolai Podgorny labeled Kaganovich a "degenerate" and a "real sadist." A Byelorussian delegate charged that former Party Secretary Georgy Malenkov helped the secret police frame...
...ostensible reason for Mikoyan's visit was to open the Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot...
...Mikoyan's public grin soon turned into a private growl. Meeting with Japanese Premier Ikeda, he made plain the real reason for his visit: to rail against U.S. military bases in Japan. "Japan is tied to the United States through a security pact that is in fact an aggressive military pact," snarled the salesman, adding that if the Berlin crisis led to war, Japan, because of its U.S. bases, could expect a Russian attack. However, said Mikoyan, "we are making every effort to prevent war." Then he proposed to Ikeda that Russia and Japan sign...
Much as the Japanese, who trade to live, were tempted by the Russian offer, at week's end there were sure signs that Mikoyan's tough talk had gone too far. Japan's normally effete press bristled with outrage; virtually every major newspaper attacked Mikoyan's meddling. Headlined one: JAPAN GETS RUN-AROUND FROM ANASTAS. Tokyo's Shimbun warned that Mikoyan's "parrotings of repeated threats by Premier Khrushchev" were no way to "make any sales." In a slap at a visiting statesman that was unprecedented for the polite Japanese, Ikeda's party...