Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic minerals in the Western hemisphere a report they already had. Malone's conduct puzzled his friends at home. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell: "If Molly has been softened up in Moscow, is it safe to let any of our legislators visit the Soviet Union?" "You're Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans tried wistfully to get into the act. Justice William O. Douglas and his wife posed for pictures in front of Lenin's tomb: AIabama's Senator John Sparkman turned...
There was no suggestion of the intimidated, the vanquished or the bidden about Konrad Adenauer's visit. The Germans traveled east with a showy, if not disdainful, display of self-reliance. A gleaming, 13-car train, a "chancellery on wheels," pulled in the day before carrying a huge entourage, with the Germans' own communications, their own police, Mercedes sedans, and huge stocks of their own food (sauerkraut, sausages, choice wines). Even the motorized gangway that pulled up to the door of Adenauer's Super Constellation had been shipped in ahead...
...Duelists. The first German Chancellor ever to visit Russia relieved this aura of bristly independence with a friendly smile as he stepped lightly down the gangway and grasped the warmly extended hand of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin...
...Adenauer counseled with his aides. They had few expectations. The fact of the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer-the formal recognition of a man they had so long reviled as an enemy, of a regime they had refused to recognize-was in itself bigger than anything that the visit itself was likely to produce. The Russians wanted to talk about formal diplomatic and economic relations between Moscow and Bonn, and to consider Germany's reunification only at the price of West Germany's withdrawal from the Western alliance. Adenauer had already agreed with the U.S., Britain...
...could not conceal: a steely and unsentimental confrontation of men, of countries, of codes that were antipathetic to each other. At one point, Khrushchev, essaying a small compliment, remarked that much liberated German wine had reached Russia since the war, and that he had come to like it. "Come visit me, my friend," said Adenauer slowly, "and I will show you that guest wine is much better than liberated wine...