Word: kosygin
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...week: in London, where Prime Minister Harold Wilson declared that Britain wanted to join Europe as a "pillar of equal strength" with the U.S.-and clamp a collar on American investments; in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle, pointedly turning his back on the Atlantic, told visiting Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin that "our Europe is a whole" even in Bonn, where West Germany's new Chancellor declared: "We wish to have relations of trust with every nation, including the East, the Soviet Union." Europe, in short, may well be on the brink of a major realignment, and Johnson...
...towers through his thick, hornrimmed glasses, praising Russian hospitality and greeting every Ivan he could find with a breezy "I'm from London. How are you?" The visitor was British Foreign Secretary George Brown, 52, making his first trip to the Soviet Union to discuss with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko a peace plan for Viet Nam and the problems of nuclear proliferation. Brown did not get far with the Russians, but he predictably described the talks as "frank" and "most useful." Those are adjectives that apply equally to Brown himself. Lately Harold Wilson has been...
...idea of a formal excommunication ceremony to isolate Red China dates from the days of Khrushchev, but the new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin let the matter cool when they took power in 1964, hoping to close the rift. One good reason: the Kremlin knew it could not count on the support of its Communist allies, for party bosses had made clear their opposition to a Soviet blackball of any Red nation...
Nikita's successors, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, have taken a more sympathetic view of Stalin's historical role. The motive is not entirely clear; perhaps B. & K. are reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step...
...that signal a return to Stalinism on Moscow's part? Not very likely. Brezhnev and Kosygin are willing to give the knight in the leopard skin his due as a major - but flawed - figure in Soviet his tory, and are more concerned with keeping peace in the Soviet family than with any fear of resurgent Stalinism...