Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
...their tempers short. Last week, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin kept up a covering barrage of pleasant generalities, Nikita Khrushchev dropped all pretense of geniality, and got down to business. Comrade Khrushchev's new theme: Russia is a powerful, thriving and scientifically advanced nation, willing and able to trade profitably with the West, but strong enough to do without if necessary...
Then Khrushchev launched into his main theme: "Our trade would hardly flourish if it were based on the sale of crabs on our side, and the sale of herring on yours. Though I do believe that our crabs are very good. And your herring is wonderful, particularly if you eat it with a bit of vodka. But that is very little if one wants to develop really large-scale trade...
...chill of the British crowds had begun to get under the skin of the burly Khrushchev, and he was obviously feeling edgy. So, for different reasons, was George Brown, a tough, belligerent trade unionist who is slated to become a minister if Labor gets back into office...
Line Demolished. By losing his temper and his good sense, Khrushchev had demolished one of the Kremlin's best current lines-that Socialists and Communists are really brothers at heart, both working for the same objectives. In their candid moments, Communists have always considered democratic socialists and trade unionists dangerous antagonists, for they are living proof that societies can reform themselves without revolution and terror. Said Gaitskell with satisfaction: "Even left-wing members cannot have had any but the most ghastly experience...