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...When the blowup came, he had to pull his story apart and put it together again to assess and analyze the new situation, all under taut deadline pressure. Thirty-six hours later he was at work on a new cover story-this week's on Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky...
...guest noticed some of Russia's marshals smiling as if pleased that at last the boss was beginning to see the light. At the crucial summit opening this week, observers noted that Khrushchev seemed to be paying "great attention" to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky-both men he had often treated as flunkies in the past. Furthermore, he astonished veteran Kremlinologists with the reason he gave for insisting that he had to make his tirade public. "I can not do otherwise," said Khrushchev...
...could afford to disarm, Khrushchev announced a 1,200,000 cut in the number of men in uniform. Last week his Defense Minister, in a major policy statement, hinted at a further release of military manpower to farms and factories. "Our government and the party Central Committee," wrote Marshal Rodion Malinovsky in Pravda, "are now thinking over and studying the question of eventually shifting over our armed forces to a territorial system...
Surrounded by Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and other smiling brass, Nikita Khrushchev proposed a toast to the Red army as "the only army that voted for its own liquidation." Since it was such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil days of 1937-38, when the officer corps was decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit...
While talking thaw, the face that Russia presented to the world last week was that of granitic Marshal Rodion Malinovsky brushing off U.S. military capabilities with the scornful jest: "Gentlemen, your arms are too short." The image presented by the free world was that of John Foster Dulles flying from capital to European capital to reconcile overpublicized differences in coping with the Soviet threat to West Berlin...