Word: nikolais
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...Everywhere," shouted Russia's Marshal Nikolai Bulganin last week to the crowds gathered in Red Square to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, "the warmongers are still continuing and increasing their activity." Such words are as expected a part of revolutionary celebrations as references to Old Glory on the U.S. Fourth of July. But last week the remarks were milder. When the usual parades were over, several representatives of the "warmongering" U.S. were among honored guests at a huge Kremlin banquet. There for the first time, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen broke bread with Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...vodka was flowing like the Volga at a Moscow garden party last week. Russia's goateed Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, hopped merrily from one cluster of diplomats to another at the celebration of Indonesian Independence
...fled: General Walter G. Krivitsky, who escaped to the West in 1937, and was found shot to death in a Washington hotel room in 1941; Captain Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, 1944; Soviet Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko, whose defection broke up a Canadian spy ring, 1945; Captain Nikolai Khokhlov, assigned to assassinate an anti-Communist Russian in West Germany, last February; and Vladimir Petrov, Soviet spy planted in the Russian embassy in Australia, last April...
...quiet spin in his motor launch. As he churned along the rowing course at Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They are incredible-efficiency in the extreme." The Russian oarsmen are not only efficient, they are good. Included in the first Russian squad, Czarist...
...have provided a further reason. Then there was the still unanswered question of what would now happen-or had already happened -to his wife Yanina in Moscow. Khokhlov himself seemed to have a strange faith in what U.S. moral pressure might do to save her. "I came here," said Nikolai Khokhlov to the American reporters, "not merely to tell you of an assassination that didn't take place, but to appeal to the one remaining force capable of saving my wife-this woman who told me, 'Do not kill...