Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poland's wiry Wladyslaw Gomulka was quietly pleased. Into Warsaw last week flew Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov and Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov. They got no ceremonial welcome, and they stayed less than 24 hours. But before they left, they had put their names to the first public Russian agreement conceding a satellite any rights to the movement and disposal of Soviet troops stationed on its territory...
...Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov began talking sympathetically about the "bureaucratic errors" of the late Rakosi-Gero regimes in Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...
After the speech was finished, Sukarno followed up his pointed innuendoes with an equally pointed gesture. When it came time to leave, he strolled off with his arm about Hugh Gumming. (Also present but unembraced: Soviet Ambassador to Indonesia Dmitry Zhukov.) Clearly, Neutralist Sukarno's U.S. tour had been rewarding-not only for him but for the U.S. as well...
...last week before freshman Democrats of the House and Senate-Ave recalled that in 1945 Ike had "expressed the view" that Russia and the U.S. could work together in saving the peace. "And what did he do at Geneva last year? Put his arm around his old pal, General Zhukov, and said they both had the same desire for peace...
...intelligence has consistently overrated Russian airpower, Twining does not feel complacent. Russian achievements in engines, the Red Air Force's ability to work in spite of limited facilities, cannot be ignored. At one point, Twining sat down for a two-hour talk with Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, whose importance in the current picture can hardly be overrated. Twining came away convinced that Zhukov was sincere when he insisted that Russia has no thought of attacking the U.S., was wryly amused when Zhukov said that the U.S. overrates Russian power− perhaps, smiled Zhukov, to justify bigger and bigger...