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...strict are your disciplines? Can you . . . occasionally have a drink of vodka...
...dinner, somewhat tanked up on vodka, Nikita Khrushchev discoursed freely, "since I am neither Prime Minister nor Foreign Minister but only the Secretary of the Communist Party." Khrushchev's theme: European peace could be guaranteed by nations with common interests-Russia, Poland, France and Britain. In the U.S., he went on, there are some who want war, and demand that Russia make concessions even before negotiations start. Russia would never give in as the price for negotiation. He then toasted "peaceful coexistence...
...vodka was flowing like the Volga at a Moscow garden party last week. Russia's goateed Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, hopped merrily from one cluster of diplomats to another at the celebration of Indonesian Independence
...Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless glasses of lemonade...
...share the head table with the celebrating Communists was Britain's Ambassador Sir William Hayter, an example of the Kremlin's attempt to split the Anglo-Americans. Other notable head-table guests: the ambassadors of India and Indonesia. The theme was "peaceful coexistence." As toast followed vodka toast, Khrushchev became conspicuously animated. Agriculture and party machinery are his specialties: he has never been outside the Iron Curtain in his life. But now he was full of foreign affairs. He proposed a toast to the Geneva settlement. He waxed confidential to the British ambassador: "I'm the Secretary...