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...when its conquering Khans ruled from Indonesia to the Danube, this ancient heartland has become the newest area in the growing clash between the two Communist rivals. Long an inaccessible province of China, Outer Mongolia became the first Soviet satellite when the Reds pursued the Whites into Urga (later Ulan Bator), and remained to establish the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924. For the next generation, Moscow monopolized Mongolia's diplomatic and trade relations to the exclusion of all foreigners, and particularly the Chinese. Mongolia's wool and hides went westward to Russia, in exchange...
Then, in 1955, the Chinese flung a chal lenge at their Russian competitors. They sent 10,000 Chinese workers and technicians to Ulan Bator, and promised more...
...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...
...rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
This week Party Boy Khrushchev, laughing, bantering and boozing, faces the greatest week-long party of all. From Hanoi, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, Peking, Sofia, Budapest and Warsaw, the great lackeys of the Communist world have converged on Moscow to attend the 40th anniversary ceremonies and pay homage to the backslapping boss of Mother Russia. It is homage fully, if ruthlessly, earned. Never in history has a human being exercised such power as Nikita Khrushchev. None has flourished it with such bibulous, somehow engaging effrontery...