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...foreign policy line (also approved by unanimous da) has been shaping up since the visit of Khrushchev, Bulganin and Mikoyan to Belgrade last spring. It aims as aggressively as ever at subjecting the world to Communism, but without Stalin's rigid preachments about the "inevitability" of violence: his successors are out to make Communists look more peaceful and disarming to the neutrals of Asia and the uncommitted Arab world. (India's Nehru has already pronounced Moscow's changes "welcomed in every way.") By their acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists...
Delivering the most outspoken attack on Stalinist distortions of the past, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian economist, singled out the name of an all-but-forgotten Stalin victim named Kossior as an example of the kind of injustice done by one-man leaders. What made his name significant was that Kossior, a Ukrainian leader who lost out in the late '30s, was purged so that Nikita Khrushchev could get his job. The new collective leaders are not above such instructive hints to one another...
...Russian audience burst into frenzied applause. As the lights went up, many in the audience had tear-stained faces. Shouting and stamping their feet, the crowd gave the cast an 8½-minute ovation. The second night the nation's top leaders-Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan-were on hand, staying through a couple of curtain calls and applauding vigorously. Gasped the artistic director of Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater: "What a tempo! What rhythm...
...memorable tableau formed. Ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov now acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen. ("Mikoyan is an old sailor, and he is reliable in all respects," Khrushchev had assured Mrs. Bohlen.) U.S. Ambassador Bohlen then challenged Mikoyan to a rowing race, and when Bohlen won, Bulganin and other Soviet officials hooted Mikoyan...
...unathletic Molotov blushed as the other guests laughed. But then, ever the practiced diplomat, he remembered the demands of the day, and got happy. Later, Mikoyan danced an Armenian folk dance in the center of a group of singing diplomats and Russians, led by Bolshoi Theater stars. Molotov and Khrushchev sang old Russian folk songs, and First Deputy Premier Kaganovich got so emotional over a song called I Met You that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes...