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...urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow of peace." Along with the smiles, the Communists offered what appeared to the world's unwise to be a substantial concession: the demobilization of 1,200,000 fighting men (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...world of Communism stirred under the wind of change. Every day the world saw some new Soviet gesture. The most dramatic last week was Russia's announcement of a sizable cutback in its armed forces. Added to that, hardly a day passed without some new witticism from Nikita Khrushchev, some new revision of history, some political prisoner rehabilitated, some old scoundrel exposed. Every gesture may yet prove a fraud, or the Kremlin's masters-finding that small concessions lead to wider demands-may try to take it all back and revert to proved severities...
...Nikita Khrushchev seemingly could not stop talking about it. The whole rankling story tumbled out. "Questions about some Social Democrats allegedly imprisoned in our country and in the People's democracies were especially prepared for us and shoved at us." Khrushchev said. "We firmly rejected these questions as provocative. They knew very well that we are doing everything possible to correct past errors in a number of cases, and that people who were condemned innocently have been rehabilitated. Why then, did they drag out this and other heinous questions, so as to gain favor in the eyes...
...Nikita added hopefully that "we are convinced'' that the leaders "did not have the rank and file of the Labor Party behind them." and tried to repair the damage to the Communists' worldwide drive for a popular front with the Socialists. "We are prepared to rise above personal offense and provocative attacks," said Nikita grandly...
Divided Impression. The fate of the prisoners, and Nikita Khrushchev's thin skin on the subject, seemed to be the most lasting impression of the trip. In the London Star Labor's Elder Statesman Clement Attlee recorded his personal impressions of B. and K. Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China...