Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before, Aneurin Bevan, the man who will be Foreign Secretary in any new Labor government, laid down his views at a preconference rally. Bevan had just come back from a tour in which he met face to face with Khrushchev, Zhukov, Gomulka and other Soviet-bloc leaders. Nye seemed to have seen much good, observed little evil, and gained no wisdom...
...forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum after another, but I couldn't advise accepting the last...
...Union. You should interview the entire group involved in our collective leadership." So wrote Nikita Khrushchev last week to Cairo's government-supported newspaper Al Messa. Then he obligingly returned answers to all the newspaper's questions, dutifully signed with 14 Presidium names headed by Khrushchev, Bulganin, Zhukov, Voroshilov and Mikoyan...
Bloody Recollection. Ike's cautious opening of the door to a Zhukov-Wilson conference-he shied away from any hint of personal involvement-blossomed into international headlines, provoked widespread, mixed reaction. Montana's Mike Mansfield, Democratic whip in the Senate, urged Ike to go farther, meet Zhukov face to face; such a meeting would "weigh heavily in the President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United...
Everybody fell in with the new line. In Leningrad barrel-chested Marshal Georgy Zhukov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in a bottle-green uniform listing to port under a load of gold and silver orders, castigated the ousted Malenkov. Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted...