Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West for getting out of Berlin. At Camp David, President Eisenhower had flatly refused to discuss other subjects until Khrushchev specifically dumped the deadline. Khrushchev finally agreed, but refused to put the promise in writing. Instead he said he would publicly confirm it when he returned to Moscow. That, last week...
...with Russia, said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, if Khrushchev follows through on his promise to reopen negotiations on the unpaid lend-lease debt, shows good faith by some reasonable payment on an obligation that the U.S. has already written down from $2.6 billion to $800 million. Moscow also published a fact that U.S. sources politely kept off the record for a week: Khrushchev asked industriailsts and financiers at a Washington dinner for loans to finance Soviet purchases...
...been removed, but somehow everybody seemed to feel better. Campaigning in Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan jauntily announced that "everybody is agreed" to a summit meeting and that everything seems to be clear except fixing "the date and the place and the people." And on a brief stopover in Moscow on the way from Washington to Peking, Khrushchev himself spoke of Dwight Eisenhower in language of a kind Soviet leaders have never before applied to a Western statesman. Said Khrushchev: "I must say that the President of the U.S. showed statesmanlike wisdom, courage and will power in assessing the present...
...years past such a made-to-order opportunity to spread dissension would have brought the Soviets galloping to the scene with hot pronunciamentos and threats. And, in fact, Moscow did nothing to lessen Asian strains last week by sending a bristling note to London accusing the British of trying to draw neutral Cambodia "under foreign influence." But at the height of last week's festivities...
...bamboo castanets, and nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below...