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Everybody from A (Adlai) to Z (Zorin) got into the main act last week, along with the two Ks (Kennedy and Khrushchev). A partial index of the variety of names that make news in this week's TIME...
...Manhattan next day, stocky, florid Valerian Zorin clumped in through the big wood door at the side of the U.N. Security Council chamber to launch the Russian offensive in the biggest propaganda forum of them all. At 59, Chief Soviet Delegate Zorin had done hatchet jobs before. Zorin was the Ambassador to Czechoslovakia who helped organize the Soviet plot that converted the Czechs' wobbly democracy into an armed dictatorship and that very possibly helped Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk "fall" to his death in the courtyard of the Czech Foreign Ministry. He has served as Ambassador to Bonn, more recently...
...Cover) In elegant apartment 42-A of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, servants were busy setting the long, polished table. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was expecting Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin and ten of his aides for lunch. There would be good food, good wines, and, hopefully, over the coffee and cigars, some quiet, profitable talk. But suddenly a Soviet courier appeared with a scribbled, abrupt message. The lunch was off, apologized Zorin, due to the press of unexpected business...
...line between diplomacy and hypocrisy fades now as the turmoil in the Congo is aggravated and the political eulogizers smack their lips. Hammarskjold calls for an investigation-too late. Soviet Ambassador Zorin attempts to make Premier Khrushchev the hero of the affair. And American statesmen, witnessing the logical result of their Congo policy, hollowly express shock...
...loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest techniques, which prescribe cuffing and a few kicks in the behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo and let the peace-loving Congolese handle things themselves. Continuing Khrushchev's campaign to destroy Hammarskjold, Zorin said...