Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comrade Venka, written during the temporary thaw after Stalin's death, was a big bestseller in Russia. Its plea for ordinary human decency is commonplace, but its point that party realism results in cruelty is so carefully spelled out that no Russian reader could have missed it. Unlike Boris Pasternak, his neighbor in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino, Novelist Nilin attempted no sweeping indictment of Communist inhumanity. Still, his little, almost boyish novel may be read as a sign that many Russians have their doubts about the Communist world...
...Capitol Hill there were signs of an early spring thaw. Mellowed by his long bout with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16), Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger went back to work, was greeted on the Senate floor by a crowd of well-wishers, headed by none other than his frosty old foe and senior colleague, Wayne Morse. Said Morse: "It is good to have him back with us." Replied Neuberger gaily: "So far as I am concerned, we will work together." Putting words into action, the two showed up for an Oregon centennial party next day, jointly labored through...
...Communist Party's 21st Congress in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev pleaded for a "thaw" in the cold war based upon mutual good faith. The evidence of good faith, by his standards, was his invitation to President Eisenhower to visit the U.S.S.R. The evidence of his true intent was his attack on U.S. leaders as "merchants of death," his warning to U.S. allies that they are making their countries potential Russian targets by harboring U.S. bases. The point was made doubly clear by the boast of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S.S.R. missiles could strike anywhere...
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...
...much the same tone, Khrushchev blamed the Eisenhower Administration for trying to nullify what he called "the certain thaw in relations between our countries that took place in connection with the favorable reception accorded [Deputy Premier] Mikoyan." Picking up President Eisenhower's press-conference comment on Mikoyan's visit, that "you couldn't do this" with Premier Khrushchev, he exclaimed in mock dismay: "This is something very close to discrimination." He invited Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union-"and we don't make this invitation conditional on reciprocity; we don't impose our visits...