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...airport speech (TIME, June 6). At a diplomatic banquet in Belgrade's White Palace, Khrushchev insultingly asked the Belgian ambassador whether his country was free, and when assured that it was, remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...Tito seemed relieved when he could turn to shake hands with the less-animated Premier Bulganin. Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...
...spring when Andrei Gromyko, Molotov's deputy, turned up in Stockholm to sound out the neutral Swedes. Then came the Austrian Treaty, with its show of Russian reasonableness in exchange for Austrian neutrality. Next on the Soviet list is Tito's Yugoslavia, a land which Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin described in 1949 as "a camp of imperialism and fascism" transformed by "Judas Tito and his malevolent deserters . . . into a Gestapo prison." This week, the same Bulganin and Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev will visit the "Gestapo prison" with what Khrushchev calls "open hearts and pure souls," ready to forgive...
Three of the chairs will be the same, but the occupants will all be new. In Stalin's place will sit Commissar Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's Premier, but not undisputed boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
...bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...