Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a small power," Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer protested to Russia's Premier Nikolai Bulganin during his recent visit to Moscow. Bulganin shook his head gravely. "No, no," he said, "you are a big power, whether you like...
Last week an official West German report to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) demonstrated in part what Bulganin meant. On the basis of present trends, West Germany expects its gross national product to be 10% higher this year than last. West German industry will produce about 15% more, exports will be up by $880 million, total foreign trade by 20%. As a result, tax yields will increase 5%, enough to allow the government to plan reductions not only in consumer taxes but also in personal income taxes...
Arguing against coexistence, Samuel Scars warned that behind "the grandmotherly cap so recently put on by Mr. Bulganin, one might see the greedy eyes and sly smile of the wolf." An enthusiastic claque clapped loudly at this, encouraging general assent from the other listeners. As Scars went on, however, the organized cheering section became more and more lonely. When he cited authority for unmasking Soviet aggression, naming David Lawrence as "a fearless American writer," Scars was forced to pause until the laughter died...
While the U.N. listened to Dulles and Molotov, it was disclosed that President Eisenhower had received an unprecedented, 2,000-word personal letter from Prime Minister Bulganin. Discussing the President's Geneva proposal for an exchange of military blueprints and for free aerial inspection. Bulganin did little more than rehash previous Soviet disarmament proposals and urge the President to work for them. While the President considered his plan as the beginning of a path to disarmament, Bulganin wanted a Soviet-style disarmament plan to come first. In language as warm as Molotov's smile, Bulganin neither accepted...
...easy task to transform the cold, cruel look of Soviet Communism without altering its substance, and Khrushchev and Bulganin were obviously tuckered out from the months of effort it had required. Last week both left Moscow for a vacation; the Party boss went to Yalta and the Premier to Sochi in the Caucasus...