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...Battle of Blocs. The invitation to Bonn, the trip to Belgrade, the flower-strewn welcome to Nehru (see below) are all part of a new hustle in Soviet diplomacy. The hustle seems to reflect a basic decision that the battle of the blocs is going against them. Unable, now that West Germany has been admitted to the West's ranks, to match the West with their own bloc, the Russians are now out to de-emphasize the whole need for blocs. The nations they cannot win over they hope to deny to the other side. Instead of demanding total...
...slivovitz had hardly stopped flowing at Khrushchev's Belgrade party last week when the Kremlin gang (including the returning celebrants) set out to win India's teetotalling Nehru. This time the technique was birds and flowers, and the scene was the more easily stage-managed environs of Moscow. What did the Kremlin gang want from Nehru, who as a neutralist is convinced that his world stature depends on refusing to become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue...
...entire Presidium of the Central Committee and all Cabinet ministers were on the tarmac at 6 p.m. when the gleaming Soviet plane taxied into Moscow's main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet...
...Elizabeth, presented a keg of slivovitz to Winston Churchill. He has exchanged toasts with the Queen of Greece, been feted at the Dolmabaghche palace in Ankara, which he had last visited as an agent of international Communism traveling with a forged passport. He has traveled to India to see Nehru, to Burma to confer with U Nu; he has talked with Egypt's Nasser aboard a yacht...
...feeling his oats. So far, his "active coexistence" was doing well: just look at what important guests he had lured to his small country-the Premier and the party boss of Russia. And this week, Burma's U Nu is coming; after him, India's Nehru. What more could a peasant...