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...American diplomacy and for Dwight Eisenhower, the conference at Geneva was a triumph. Throughout the week the President dominated the scene in every move he made-from his shrewd attention to his old friend Georgy Zhukov to his electrifying offer to trade military blueprints with the Soviets (see FOREIGN NEWS...
First Day. Inside the huge marble building, Eisenhower greeted the waiting Russians, shook hands warmly with his wartime friend of Berlin days, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, now Russia's Minister of Defense. As the two old soldiers exchanged queries about each other's families, Nikita Khrushchev bustled up to Ike's elbow: "I want to let you in on a Zhukov family secret," burbled Nikita. Zhukov, he said, had missed his daughter's wedding to come to Geneva and see Eisenhower again...
...that he is a head of state while the other Big Three are only chiefs of government, issued invitations, but accepted none from the other three. The first night, he had the Russians to dinner, greeting them with Mamie on the stone terrace overlooking the lake. He chatted with Zhukov, after dinner surprised the Russian by producing two wedding presents for his daughter-a desk pen inscribed "From the President of the United States, July 1955," and a portable U.S. radio -which he had hastily ordered after he learned of the marriage that morning from Khrushchev...
Soldier to Soldier. In the midst of this developing exercise in sharp words, Eisenhower turned in his chair, faced directly toward Zhukov at the far end of the Russians' table. "Marshal Zhukov is an old friend of mine," said Ike. "He knows that when we have spoken as soldier to soldier, I have never said a word that is not true." Earnestly, Eisenhower went on. "I have had enough of war," he said, and he would never have left retirement to take command of NATO if he had not believed it was an organization for peace...
When Hitler attacked Russia, Bulganin, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, made a name for himself by being the first high Soviet official to "volunteer" for war service at the fighting front. Bulganin became the civilian organizer behind Marshal Georgy Zhukov's defense of the Soviet capital. Since he has become Premier, his biography has been edited to paint a picture of Bulganin at the barricades. He was never at the barricades but he-and Moscow's embattled citizenry-did the necessary job. As a reward, Bulganin got a general's rank...