Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sedans and station wagons and hit the road. For the moment, at least, summertime rites seemed more important than civil rights; personal clouds were fluffier than the faraway blossom of the latest atomic shot; disarmament was something for Harold Stassen to worry about; and international problems, from Arabs to Zhukov, all belonged...
...thinking about the post-Stalin upheavals in Russia, Dwight Eisenhower has one advantage over the host of diplomats, pundits, dopesters and intelligence experts who try to figure out what it all means. The advantage: from World War II days he knows personally bluff, tough Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, now grown mighty as No. 2 man and Defense Minister in Khrushchev's new "flexible" regime. Last week the President showed how much this "old soldier" relationship -and its possible usefulness in promoting world peace-weighs on his mind...
...response to a reporter's question at his midweek press conference, Ike casually agreed that an interchange of meetings between Zhukov and his U.S. opposite number. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, "might" be useful. "Marshal Zhukov and I operated together very closely [in occupied postwar Berlin]," said Eisenhower. "I couldn't see any harm coming from a meeting between the two Defense Ministers, if that could be arranged...
Necessary Caution. Recalling his tortuous postwar discussions with Zhukov -a "confirmed Communist" but an "honest man"-Dwight Eisenhower went on: "One evening we had a three-hour conversation. We tried each to explain to the other just what our systems meant . . . to the individual, and I was very hard pufe to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position because he said: 'You tell a person he can do as he pleases, he can act as he pleases...
Fall & Comeback: After Zhukov had basked beside Dwight Eisenhower for six months as Allied joint commander in Berlin, Stalin moved to strip him of his war-won glory. In his secret speech to the 20th Congress, Khrushchev told how the jealous Stalin spread stories that "before each operation at the front Zhukov used to take a handful of earth, smell it and say: 'We can begin the attack,' or the opposite: 'The planned operation cannot be carried out.' " Zhukov was banished for six years, to Odessa, then to the Urals. But within 24 hours of Stalin...