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Change of Mood. But when his white Ilyushin 18 turboprop set down in East Berlin, Khrushchev emerged in a new character-sober, sedate, mantled in almost Roman dignity. East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht greeted him nervously; he had first learned Nikita was coming only when Khrushchev casually remarked to newsmen in Paris that he "might" stop off on his way home. Khrushchev gave one glowering glance at a stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice...
...speech at East Berlin's Seelenbinder Hall, Nikita Khrushchev had a handpicked, wildly cheering audience of 8,000 Communists. Standing beneath a banner reading END THE PROVOCATIONS OF EISENHOWER AND ADENAUER, Nikita cried, "There was perfidy on the part of the American President. I repeat the word perfidy-there is no other word for it." Then he stood by, frowning, while an interpreter read the remainder in German. A strange note of resignation ran through it. His new theme: wait, and take it easy. He complained darkly about U.S. militarists, but added, "We will wait for negotiations...
Throughout the applause, Nikita Khrushchev and Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky were unsmiling and wooden-faced. The next day they climbed again into the white Ilyushin 18 and flew back to Moscow...
...Wherever Nikita Khrushchev went last week, he had a shadow. Whether it was Paris, Berlin or Moscow, there at Nikita's elbow was the hulking, impassive Ukrainian, whose short-cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...
...time past, Nikita had kept his soldiers out of the diplomatic limelight, had even been prone to twit them in public. Only a fortnight ago, while boasting of the Soviet army's current troop cuts at a diplomatic reception, Nikita gibed: "One of our generals over there just scratched his head. Another reduction!" But last week, as he ranted through the most clamorous diplomatic debacle of modern times, Nikita thrust Russia's top soldier into the public eye at every opportunity...