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Necessary Caution. Recalling his tortuous postwar discussions with Zhukov -a "confirmed Communist" but an "honest man"-Dwight Eisenhower went on: "One evening we had a three-hour conversation. We tried each to explain to the other just what our systems meant . . . to the individual, and I was very hard pufe to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position because he said: 'You tell a person he can do as he pleases, he can act as he pleases...
Immediately Presidium Member Andrei Kirilenko, a virtual unknown from Sverdlovsk, attacked Molotov, saying that the party conservatives were "responsible for the outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...
...week's end the mediation committee of Long Island's Suffolk County Medical Society announced after a three-hour session that because Dr. Kris had been under a "mistaken impression" regarding "the limits of the family's ability to pay," there would be no bill for the Hoopers. However, lest a dangerous precedent be set, the committee took pains to note: "Any doctor has the right to render a bill for his service...
...When his three-hour speech ended, U Nu sent his ministers off to revamp Burma's Four-Year Plan...
Great Document. Humphrey's high point was a three-hour conference with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Humphrey soon discovered that Nasser knew very little about Eisenhower. He had, he said, read Crusade in Europe. Asked Humphrey: "Have you read President Eisenhower's second inaugural address?" When Nasser replied "No," Humphrey sent round to the U.S. Embassy for a copy, advised Nasser to read "one of the greatest documents for peace ever written." Said Humphrey: "Eisenhower seeks to dominate no one, and it appears to me that anyone who really wants peace in the world...