Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris was likely to be better then...
...Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the end Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov, might be acceptable in the Holy City, but not Khrushchev. Reason: many...
Nehru was still worried by Peking's militaristic intentions, but heartened by the support India was getting around the world. In Moscow, instead of siding with his Communist partner, Nikita Khrushchev was urging both sides to embrace and make up. The remote land is not worth fighting over, said Khrushchev at a Moscow reception, though "give a general any situation and he will find strategic significance in it. I don't trust generals' appraisal of strategic significance...
After a month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe), Caldwell was intrigued about his royalties, if any, from many years of publication of his books. To his surprise, he learned that each publishing house had kept a tab of a sort on its debt to him. At one of them, he was told over much vodka...
...February, can be certain that the book (75,000 copies in print before publication) will sell like blini. Author Thompson's humor is becoming strained, but whenever the text sags, the illustrations more than make up for it; Artist Knight has provided the most arresting views of Moscow since Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (was great turn-of-century painter). All in all, is possible here to have fun with Eloise, in former days little girl, now diplomat...