Foreign News: Fist for a Fist

Five days of chilling British indifference had made their smiles sickly and their tempers short. Last week, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin kept up a covering barrage of pleasant generalities, Nikita Khrushchev dropped all pretense of geniality, and got down to business. Comrade Khrushchev's new theme: Russia is a powerful, thriving and scientifically advanced nation, willing and able to trade profitably with the West, but strong enough to do without if necessary.

Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane...

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