Word: nikolais
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...Egypt's chief Arab rival) caught an Egyptian army officer masquerading as an Egyptian embassy butler and convicted him of conspiracy. In neighboring and impoverished Libya, where the U.S. has a big air base. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hassan el Faki connives busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms in a bait can." Cairo has also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander in Jerusalem, who fled Jordan to escape imprisonment for complicity...
Although the big news from Moscow concerned a dead Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS), there was intelligence of another kind about a very live Premier Nikolai Bulganin,, At a party at the Danish embassy, which Nikita Khrushchev was too busy to attend, Bulganin roared toasts to every toastable cliche. At one excited peak he grabbed a martini and fervently cried: "Eisenhower opened the martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed...
...limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with Soviet cameramen taking pictures. Inside the monastery batteries of klieg lights ensured that the photographers would not miss a detail. The conferences had hardly got under way, when it seemed that they might break up in a squabble. When Metropolitan Nikolai, No. 2 Russian prelate in the Moscow patriarchate, asked how the U.S. could work for peace without joining the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council, the Americans got up their clerical choler. They fired back that the World Peace Council represented the interests of the Soviet Union alone, accused the Russian prelates...
...President caught the world's imagination and raised its hopes with a new disarmament plan sent to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. Eisenhower proposed that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. agree to halt the production of nuclear weapons, if the nations can agree on air and ground inspection systems. Said Eisenhower:"My ultimate hope is that all production of fissionable materials anywhere in the world will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes." Commented Bulganin: "It is a very interesting letter, and a good...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...