Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all the assurance of a man operating a crooked roulette wheel, Nikita Khrushchev last week in Moscow proclaimed his confidence that the Geneva conference "will be successful." Folksy as ever, Nikita went on to explain: "We have a Russian saying that goes something like this: to achieve something difficult it is necessary to eat a pood* of salt. The foreign ministers may have to eat a great deal of salt. But even if they do not succeed in eating or digesting it on the first try, they should make new efforts...
With the inadvertent aid of the 1,100 newsmen in Geneva, most of whom found little to write about beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that...
Minimum price the West was prepared to accept for going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
...being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
...Socolow '59, will be in this year's group to the Soviet Union, but Gamble noted that the Experiment had consciously tried to limit the proportion of Harvard men in the group. Like most of the other members of this summer's group, Socolow is able to speak good Russian...