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Smiles & Salutes. Perhaps one million Indians were massed at the airport or lined the twelve-mile route when a twinengined Soviet transport, escorted by eight Indian jets, arrived in Delhi. Out stepped Nikolai Bulganin and waggled a light straw hat. Behind him came Nikita Khrushchev and waggled a light straw hat. A wave of onlookers broke over steel barricades and had to be beaten back by police swinging steel-tipped staves. Garlands formed nooses about the necks of the visitors, and an aimless cheer resolved itself into an intelligible chant, "Nehru! Bulganin! Khrushchev!" The celebrities chatted. Nehru had heard that...
...professionals at the rumpled, old-shoe geniality routine, Mister Bulganin and Mister Khrushchev, preceded always by the heavy-footed scuffle of scores of security guards, waved their hats to thousands, dispensed autographs to clusters of children, gaped with tourist-like awe at sights and monuments. At one point, when a crowd sprinkled rose petals on Khrushchev's bald pate, Bu1ganin happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went...
...rostrum built in the shape of a white pagoda. To great cheers the Russians raised Nehru's arm in the manner of a referee crowning a winner. A choir of schoolchildren sang Indians and Russians Are Brothers, written especially for the occasion. From the balcony, Nikolai Bulganin praised the "five principles of coexistence" agreed upon by Nehru and Red China's Chou Enlai. "We are allies in a great struggle for peace throughout the world," he told the huge crowd. "We are prepared to share with you our experiences in constructing industrial enterprises and utilizing atomic energy...
...very day Misters Bulganin and Khrushchev got this glowing reception, a message from Nehru arrived in Washington. It was Nehru's response to a message &f congratulations President Eisenhower had sent him on his 66th birthday, extolling India's "most successful experiment in democracy." In reply. Nehru thanked the President as "a great leader of a great nation, who has labored for peace and good will amongst nations and peoples." Nehru also seized one public occasion to tell Bulganin and Khrushchev that "We are in no camp and no military alliance." Such statements demonstrated that India...
...these professions hardly matched the ardent public welcome Nehru bestowed on Khrushchev and Bulganin -a performance which, if it did nothing else, could only serve to lend respectability to Russia's leaders in the eyes of India's millions...