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...high in the vaulted St. George's Hall. Ambassadors, bishops, marshals in all their medals and all the top Soviet bosses thronged the long banquet tables and devoured mounds of caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts-"The heroic working class!" "The collective peasantry!" "The Soviet intelligentsia!" "The all-conquering ideas of Marxism-Leninism...
...appalled at the spectacle of the U.S. and Russia shaping up toward another "war by deputy" on the Korean model. The British argued for a cease-fire and a neutralist Laos with a coalition government that would include the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. They even sent a note to Nikita Khrushchev to propose revival of the international control commission (India, Poland, Canada) that was set up to patrol Laos at the end of the Indo-China war. Khrushchev piously declared he was for it, and added that even better, the Geneva conference (which originally partitioned French Indo-China after Dienbienphu...
Moscow's new People's Friendship University was hatched suddenly by Nikita Khrushchev during his trip to Indonesia last February. It was opened this fall with appropriate rites in the floodlit Hall of Columns, where U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was tried. "Do not be afraid of Moscow's frosts," said a Russian girl as she peered at 400 students from 59 countries. "The warmth of our hearts is with you, and it will keep you warm." Said Khrushchev: "We shall not force our ideology on you, but if any of you become infected with the disease...
Hand in Hand. The Soviet Union tried hard to exploit the new balance of power. Although the Afro-Asian group may have deplored Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging behavior in the Assembly, many of the new neutralist nations, for reasons of their own, were willing to join in voting against "Western imperialism" on more than one important occasion. Where Russia once voted with only a lonely Communist bloc of nine on many resolutions, 20 and more members now found their voting plans coinciding with the Reds', though few of the new countries were Communist or even sympathetic...
...KREMLIN, by David Douglas Duncan. Somehow Photographer Duncan persuaded Nikita Khrushchev into allowing him to photograph the art treasures of the czars that are still preserved in the Kremlin. The result: a stunning book...