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...Menshikov, but the guessing in Washington is that Khrushchev sent his right-hand man to talk to President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials, to sound out the firmness of the U.S.'s determination to stay on in Berlin. Mikoyan may try to arrange a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Big Two parley (the U.S. has insisted that Britain and France must take part in any summit conference), possibly a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. Besides spending four or five days in Washington, Mikoyan may make a fast fortnight's tour of major U.S. cities-reportedly including Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit...
...Hungarian revolution, it was Serov who broke into a peace parley between Red army generals and Hungarian freedom fighters, to treacherously seize the Hungarian commander, General Pal Maleter, who was later executed. It was Serov who masterminded the kidnaping of the late Premier Imre Nagy after he had been given a safe-conduct to leave Budapest's Yugoslav embassy...
...fact, the Warsaw talks have merely shown the double standard the U.S. employs in dealing with the regime which governs more people than any other. We will send an ambassador to parley with Red China's, but we will not recognize the Communist government. Although we officially dispute Red China's claim that the quarrel over the coastal islands is an internal affair, we do not recognize the Communists as a separate belligerent, but rather as a faction temporarily in control of the mainland...
...Time: 11:15 p.m. E.D.T. That day in Peking the Kremlin's Khrushchev had wound up four days of secret conferences with Red China's Mao. In Washington U.S. officials were again on tenterhooks about a parley at the summit. In the quivering Middle East more U.S. ground troops were pouring ashore. But there beneath the peaceful, sunlit icecap, the 116 U.S. Navymen were making more pages for the history books than anybody else. They were setting a new sea tradition for their countrymen, to rate alongside Jones, Farragut, Peary, Byrd. The submarine was blunt-bowed Nautilus, world...
Last week the U.S. Government's patience was running out on another hugand-tug type of foreign diplomat in Washington. Name: Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, ambassador of the U.S.S.R., who has carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice...