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...rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
...Moscow airport. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov remarked to a Western diplomat that he had hoped for better weather to greet the Austrians. Said the diplomat: "In these cases, Mr. Minister, the weather that matters is the weather you find when you leave." Interjected Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan: "You can be sure the sun will be shining when they leave." The sun of Soviet officialdom beamed from the moment the Austrian plane touched down. The Austrians were wined, dined and feted, and the bonhomie spilled over in all directions. At a reception given by Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen offered...
British businessmen returning from the Soviet Union during the past two years with their pockets bulging with trade orders have given glowing reports of the friendly attitude of Soviet business bigwigs, particularly Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Britain wearing the new, or post-Malenkov, hard-hat look. They wanted to cancel or modify earlier orders for consumer capital goods. Estimated value of cancellations (mostly for textile and shoemaking machinery) to date...
...that would more disarm our people," said the editor of Pravda last week, in a long article calling for a return to the "Stalin economic theory" of full emphasis on heavy (i.e., war) industry. On the same day, the Moscow newspapers carried two sentences on their back pages announcing Mikoyan's resignation from the Ministry of Trade. Nothing was said about his giving up his place on the Party Presidium or his job as a Deputy Premier, but more may be heard of that at the meeting of the Supreme Soviet...
Into the Spotlight. The eclipse of Mikoyan, even if temporary, throws into high relief a growing figure on the Soviet scene: stocky, jug-eared Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Communist Party-a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. A dozen major speeches have put Khrushchev in the world spotlight during the past year. He has attended Communist Party congresses in Poland and Prague, led a Soviet delegation...