RUSSIA: Birds & Flowers

The slivovitz had hardly stopped flowing at Khrushchev's Belgrade party last week when the Kremlin gang (including the returning celebrants) set out to win India's teetotalling Nehru. This time the technique was birds and flowers, and the scene was the more easily stage-managed environs of Moscow. What did the Kremlin gang want from Nehru, who as a neutralist is convinced that his world stature depends on refusing to become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any...

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