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...time, he replied crisply: "I think anybody could." He criticized the President's "tough talk" before the Geneva Conference and his soft words there. "I, for one," said Stevenson, "had never expected an American President to plead with a third-string Communist [meaning Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov] to please believe that the U.S. wants peace...
After lunch, Bulganin packed a crowd of diplomats, reporters and children into Zis limousines and took them off to see a deer park while pudgy Party Boss Khrushchev went out into a berry patch to pick raspberries with Defense Minister Zhukov. Down by the lake shore a memorable tableau formed. Ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov now acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen...
Molotov Blushes. Molotov, getting into the act, took the Argentine ambassador and the Indonesian ambassador's wife out in another rowboat, but upset the boat when trying to beach it, and soaked everybody. "Molotov, you are a terrible sailor," said Defense Minister Zhukov, laughing heartily. "One should ride with you around the edge of the lake, not in the middle...
...Another fellow said, 'Don't worry; they always fizz before they explode.' " At Ike's special invitation, Zhukov came to lunch alone except for his interpreter...
Balks & Crags. Zhukov's colleagues were less amiable. As the summit conference opened on the third afternoon, Bulganin was stubborn. He wanted a security plan (his own), but refused to accept the West's price-unification of Germany first...