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...longer requires Western recognition of Communist East Germany. Then came the old stall: Russia would not discuss the question of access until the Western powers agreed that Berlin become a "free city," i.e., until they renounced their occupation rights. And there matters stopped-approximately where they had been when Nikita Khrushchev first conjured up the Berlin crisis last November...
...publics of Western Europe and the U.S., the ritual dance at Geneva had become a deadly bore. Dwight Eisenhower said last week that the Geneva talks had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
...Nikita Khrushchev was thus conspicuously not at his desk on the day his Berlin ultimatum expired. But why else had he flown off to Albania? Rome's Communist L'Unitá volunteered one explanation: "The West should realize that if Khrushchev is hot, he can take a cooling swim in the Adriatic. The Socialist stronghold, which extends from the Elbe to the Red River of Viet Nam, also reaches from the Bering Strait to the Adriatic." Khrushchev himself, who did not go swimming, as usual put his presence to use. Barreling through Europe's wildest and remotest...
...Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
Coming two days before the deadline originally set by Nikita Khrushchev for the West to quit West Berlin, Springer's ceremony was particularly symbolic. "The fact that we lay this cornerstone today right at the edge of the sector boundary," said he, "is an expression of our fast faith in the historical unity of Germany...