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What the foreign ministers had agreed on, with this display of cheerful unity, was a united Western stance for the Big Four summit conference scheduled to begin in Paris on May 16, with President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Charles de Gaulle facing Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Other way stations still lay ahead-De Gaulle's eight-day visit to the U.S., beginning this week, and another foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul on May 1-but essentially, the position that the West would take to the summit had been settled...
...slowly, warily concluded that forces of change are at work in the Red world, evidenced by greater emphasis on consumer-goods production, the partial dismantling of the police-state terror apparatus, the parting of the Iron Curtain to permit travel and cultural exchange. From his recent talks with Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle brought away a firm impression that Khrushchev now feels compelled to take into account a new fact of life: Soviet public opinion...
...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
Culled Witticisms. Though sometimes dull and often irrelevant, Nikita's freewheeling quips and proverbs were at first a delight to newsmen and an astonishment to diplomats. But last week there was increasing evidence that Nikita was not as quick-witted as he seemed. Truth was that like other politicians-and comedians-he depends heavily on a stable of ghostwriters...
Knowing Khrushchev's fondness for the simple peasant phrase, both writers keep their notebooks filled with proverbs, historical references and even religious quotations that can be used if the occasion arises. Since Nikita talks on any and all occasions, the two usually prepare plenty of stock speeches before a trip abroad, with the quips written in. Nikita may insert a few remarks about the weather or a witticism culled from the typewritten review of the local press, which he receives every day when abroad...