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Before the 41st annual convention of Kiwanis International Club in San Francisco, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last week delivered the first full-dress U.S. answer to Nikita Khrushchev's celebrated "secret" speech in the Kremlin (TIME, June 11 ). Reading solemnly from a text that the President had approved in outline, Dulles marked out the fronts in the essential conflict before the world: on one side despotism, however muted; on the other democracy, however confused...
...Apology. In Manhattan's Daily Worker last week Communist Fast not only executed a timely party-line flip but wound up looking Nikita Khrushchev straight in the eye in a way that might well give Khrushchev pause about the forces he has let loose in the party. Khrushchev's "secret" speech (TIME, March 26 et seq.), wrote Fast, "is a strange and awful document ... It itemizes a record of barbarism and paranoiac blood lust that will be a lasting and shameful memory to civilized man . . . Mr. Khrushchev led men of good will to understand that the document itself...
...reply: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." No mention was made, either, of the fact that, at Stalin's order, the elephantine Khrushchev had once performed the gopak, a fast Ukrainian dance. Nor did the transcript record such homely touches as the cob-nosed Nikita in tears as he told of children being tortured, and the fact that 30 delegates had fainted and had to be lugged out of the hall...
Londoners were snickering last week over a story involving a recent visitor to their city: Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Once he asked a student in Moscow: "Who wrote Anna Karenina...
...story itself, in one version or another, is not new. What gave it spice for Londoners was the fact that Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told it on himself at 10 Downing Street...