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...Russian propaganda machine this document, couched in exactly the kind of language to which Pravda readers are accustomed, is as useful as a 20-year treaty of friendship. Set side by side with smiling photographs, it will doubtless convince the Russian and satellite peoples that Britain, along with India, Burma and the rest, has fallen for Moscow's new siren song...
THESE were the ten days that shook the Russians. The two "traveling salesmen" failed. The triumphs to which they had become used in Yugoslavia, India, Burma and Afghanistan could not be repeated in Britain. This time the Russians blundered, and it will always be a source of wonder why they did or how they could. They should have been prepared for firmness and bluntness in an atmosphere of correct and polite welcome. The fact that Khrushchev lost his temper several times, antagonized his hosts, alarmed neutral opinion everywhere, and set back the Communist campaigns for popular fronts with Socialists proves...
...delegates read their reports to an international congress on leprosy sponsored by the Knights of Malta.* In Burma there were 2,000 known leprosy cases in 1951; now there are 30,000. In the Belgian Congo there are now 250,000 known leprosy victims, compared to only 60,000 a few years ago. In French Equatorial Africa there were 37,508 known cases in 1951; now there...
...Austria. But for all the sweet talk at Geneva, the Russians were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree to any solution of the big problem, which was Germany. B. and K. went galumphing off to India and Burma where in a riot of flowers and oriental emotionalism Khrushchev hit his old demagogic stride. Asian adulation went to Nikita's head. Those who were waiting for Communism to crumble (i.e., the West), he told Pravda readers, would have "to wait until shrimps learn to whistle...
...been filled with regrets and forebodings. A powerful faction in the Tory Party, led by Lord Salisbury, Eden's own longtime guide and mentor, was against the idea almost from the beginning. Others joined in after Khrush and Bulgy made their circus tour of India and Burma, spraying gratuitous insults at Britain. Snapped that professional angry man Lord Vansittart, longtime head of Britain's Foreign Service: "May I repeat for the ninth time what I said so often in Hitler's day-those who ask to be deceived must not grumble if they are gratified." There...