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...world looked on with mingled relief and apprehension. The Russians were strangely silent. Dotty old Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov, 77, said De Gaulle's return would "do more harm than good," but Radio Moscow quickly repudiated the remark. Moscow was torn by the desire to let French Communists, rioting in the streets, appear defenders of the Fourth Republic against the "Fascist right,'' while hoping that De Gaulle's proud and mystic nationalism might jeopardize the harmony of the NATO alliance. Washington, too, was tactfully discreet, hoping that De Gaulle could restore his sick nation to health...
...Soviet regime felt the need for tightening up. Last year Khrushchev proposed a radical decentralization of ministries, creating 105 regional enclaves, which the 105 bosses have tried to remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing fines and jail...
...American imperialists need." A few days later, after a full Central Committee meeting in Moscow, Pravda warned that if Yugoslavia's rulers think the Soviet Union is taking advantage of its economic relations with their country, they can be "relieved of such 'exploitation.' " Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov canceled his scheduled state visit to Yugoslavia...
...whole Soviet leadership in Moscow met him at Vnukovo airport. Under giant paired portraits of Nasser and President Voroshilov, strapping paratroopers mounted honor guard. "Hail, leader of the Arab world!" shouted a drilled student group. Thousands excused from work lined the roads to the city, carrying Nasser pictures and waving little United Arab Republic flags in the bright spring sunshine. Jutting broad-shouldered and broad-grinning over the heads of Voroshilov and Khrushchev, the dictator of the Nile paraded, standing in an open ZIL convertible, to his luxurious guest quarters in the Kremlin...
Presumably somebody told Khrushchev he had said the wrong thing. Last week, as he held forth at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow, his eye lit on Israel's Ambassador Joseph Avidar. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians had asked Marshal Voroshilov about Soviet mistreatment of Jews, Khrushchev said, during her recent visit to Moscow's Tchaikovsky festival. Voroshilov denied the charge by saying, "In fact my wife is Jewish." Khrushchev added: "Half the members of the Presidium have Jewish wives." Those who keep track of such matters in the West doubt that even two Presidium members have Jewish...