Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson and family were opening presents around the tree in Spaso House Christmas morning when the phone rang. It was the Soviet Foreign Ministry, asking the ambassador to drop by Andrei Gromyko's office. An hour later Ambassador Thompson received a letter from Premier Khrushchev, assuring President Eisenhower that Khrushchev would be glad to go to a summit meeting in Paris next spring, just so that he could get back to Moscow in time for May Day. The same message also went to the British and French...
Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...
Songs of Welcome. The junketing World Councilmen ranged from Moscow to Leningrad, to Riga in satellite Latvia, to Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
Truths for Troubled Times. Church leaders are under close supervision by officials of the Soviet Government's Council for Religious Affairs. "These are full-blooded Marxists, of course," said Visser 't Hooft. "But some of these atheist supervisors have developed a real liking for their job and show a deep interest in church affairs and history. After all, there may be found in England and Sweden and elsewhere government functionaries in charge of church affairs who are agnostics as well...
...hope for the future of the Church of Christ in Russia is based upon the scriptural truth that the word of God is not bound, and will continue its saving work in the future as it has in the past. Your church as well as other churches in the Soviet Union have shown in troubled times that they live by the power that comes from the Holy Spirit, and this power is eternal and ever creative...