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...summer afternoon in 1945, an American newsman asked a visitor to Moscow, "What do you think of Zhukov?" Answered Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Georgy is a very decent fellow. [If he were] left on his own, I believe I could do business with him." Last week, when Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was named Defense Minister of the Soviet Union, the question whether the old friendship would affect U.S.-Soviet relations became the subject of international speculation...
...Enormous Bear Rug. Dwight Eisenhower and Georgy Zhukov became friends in the early days of Allied control in Berlin. Their friendship did not indicate sympathy on the part of either man for the political system represented by the other: it was, in President Eisenhower's words, "personal and individual...
Speculating about "Ike and Zuke," Washington correspondents last week were quick to bring up the subject at the President's press conference. What did Zhukov's appointment mean in terms of Soviet-U.S. relations? Answered Ike: "Now, when I knew Marshal Zhukov, I will say this: he was a competent soldier. A man could not have conducted the campaigns he did, could not have explained them so lucidly and in terms of his own strength and his own weaknesses and so on, except that he was a well-trained, splendid military leader...
...Mutual Assurance. A reporter pointed out that Zhukov had said in an interview last week, that he and Ike once assured each other that neither of their countries would attack the other. Said the President: "Now, I explained to him how absolutely impossible it was for a democracy to organize a surprise aggression against anybody. Our processes are open. Every time you get money or you change anything in your military affairs, you go to Congress. It is debated. There is no possibility of a country such as ours producing a completely surprise attack on' the other. And that...
...Joseph E. Davies and ceased only when Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. But the memory of agreement still remained, and World War II saw a degree of Allied co-operation on the military level that, naturally but regrettably, was not equalled on the political. Possibly, with Zhukov now Defense Minister and Voroshilov still an important factor in Soviet military planning, the sensible caution of the professional soldier will put a stop to the dreams of the politicians...