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...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...savage buffaloes locked in mortal combat." At this U.N. session the neutralist nations have thrown themselves between the colossi of East and West in the prayerful hope of ending the cold war. Feelings of alarm swept the uncommitted countries at the table thumpings and rocket rattlings of Nikita Khrushchev. They were dismayed by the parliamentary maneuvering of the U.S., which saw no advantage to "renewed" talks between Eisenhower and Khrushchev...
...Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
Among the gaggle of satellite Communist bosses trotting at Nikita Khrushchev's heels in Manhattan, one was conspicuously odd man out. Red Premier Mehmet Shehu of Albania was not on the Baltika's passenger list, got to Manhattan as an ordinary passenger on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut...
...between rocket-rattling sessions, Nikita Khrushchev sometimes shows a genuine fear of nuclear war and no longer argues that only the other side would get hurt. This more considered position seems to be the cold calculation of the Soviet military itself, to judge by an article published in Moscow's monthly International Life by Major General Nikolai Talensky of the Soviet General Staff. Writes Gen eral Talensky...