Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita Khrushchev's visit. A major general and a colonel of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, the Kremlin's secret police, gumshoed quietly across the country, turning up in such unlikely places as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed...
...Corn. By week's end, detailed plans were well along for Nikita Khrushchev's arrival in the nation's capital. At 10 a m. next Tuesday, when he alights from the TU-114 propjet plane at Andrews Air Force Base. 15 miles southeast of Washington, the Soviet Premier will be welcomed to U.S. soil by President Dwight Eisenhower and other Government and military leaders. Metropolitan police. Secret Service and State Department security officers will line his route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. A minimum number...
Politics to Prayers. Along with the bustle of preparations and plans, loud opposition to the Soviet leader's visit continued to be heard across the land. In Washington, a Committee for Freedom for All Peoples distributed black armbands to be worn while he is in the U.S., appealed to the nation for "solidarity with the victims of Communism by a concerted manifestation of national mourning.'^ Among the committee's backers: three U.S. Senators-Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Illinois' Paul Douglas and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, and two members of the House of Representatives...
...life, the only audible answer to all these German overtures was a snarl of Communist fury. Standing in a drizzling rain to address an anniversary gathering of 20.000 people, Poland's Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz cried that Adenauer hopes "to drive a wedge between Poland and the Soviet Union." As for Adenauer's claim that Germany's final repudiation of Hitler was demonstrated by German cheers last week for Dwight Eisenhower, "the victorious army leader against Hitler's Germany," that, said Cyrankiewicz, was so much eyewash. The Germans who cheered Ike, he snapped bitterly, no doubt included...
...this chorus of self-accusation, no voice carried so much weight as that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In a nationwide radio address, Adenauer offered deep expressions of regret to "the likable Polish people," admitted that "Hitler Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland and cruelly destroyed it." But today's Germany, he insisted, "is quite another Germany from that under Hitler ... It is therefore that I say from deep conviction that this Germany, the new Germany, will some day be a good neighbor of Poland...