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...though its nominal job, supposedly guarding the Soviet supply route to occupied Austria, is ended. The Red army will stay on in Rumania, happily announced Rumania's Communist Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, so long as there are foreign soldiers in West Germany. Then came baggy-suited, First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev from Moscow with smiling assurances of "all-round assistance . . . from reliable and faithful friends" and to wish "you, dear friends, new great successes in building the foundations of socialism." The satellites must stay strong, Khrushchev added. "In the world there are forces which stand in the way ... of this...
...delegates turned out to be top-drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
...beginning were the Russians. They came to Geneva smiling, waving at the crowds, breathing good will, issuing invitations to one and all to come visit the Soviet Union. "Things are different now," cried burly Nikita Khrushchev...
First Day. Inside the huge marble building, Eisenhower greeted the waiting Russians, shook hands warmly with his wartime friend of Berlin days, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, now Russia's Minister of Defense. As the two old soldiers exchanged queries about each other's families, Nikita Khrushchev bustled up to Ike's elbow: "I want to let you in on a Zhukov family secret," burbled Nikita. Zhukov, he said, had missed his daughter's wedding to come to Geneva and see Eisenhower again...
...darted while their parents sipped champagne. Suddenly, all unheralded, a squad of stocky men in baggy dark suits, all doing their best to look affable, marched into the garden and greeted the hostess, Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador. Beaming at their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier...