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* The "orator" is clearly Leonid Brezhnev, whom Khrushchev seems to be castigating for the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
When I was the head of our party and government, we decreased the size of our army both in the Soviet Union and in the fraternal [Warsaw Pact] countries. Some people who read my memoirs may misinterpret that policy and say it was wrong for us to cut back our...
Why is this potential doorstop winning such acclaim? Are readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize...
Aneurin was a 7th century Welsh warrior-bard, and Aneurin Bevan aptly bore his name. Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became-second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of...
Or was he? In the hours following the end of his house arrest, there were clear indications that Kim, 48, had paid for his release with a promise to end his anti-Park political activities. Kim's own comments were uncharacteristically conciliatory. "My activities abroad had caused much trouble...