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the gesture was an improvisation, and an altogether appropriate one, of random freemen at a loss for means of expressing their contempt. The simpler expedient of yelling “Communists!” would, after all, have been supererogatory under the circumstances; and anyway, the question is these days before the house whether that is an epithet. What neither Pravda nor INS has revealed is what were the political affiliations of the group of women who, three nights later, greeted Khrushchev with a chorus of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”? (Bulganin joined in the singing.) Perhaps, for an encore, Khrushchev’s admirers will oblige him with a verse or two of “Onward Christian Soldiers.”

Moscow’s new “collective leadership” has its own notion of “the mellowing of the dictatorship” that has so impressed George Kennan. In recent weeks they have thrown out the Premier of Bulgaria and six members of the Polish Government. News has leaked out that at Tiflis (in Soviet Georgia) the MVD killed more than a hundred demonstrators. You got liquidated yesterday for one word against Stalin; and today, for one in his favor. The order is also out about the new spirit of friendship toward the imperialist world: Be mellow or be shot.

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the gesture was an improvisation, and an altogether appropriate one, of random freemen at a loss for means of expressing their contempt. The simpler expedient of yelling “Communists!” would, after all, have been supererogatory under the circumstances; and anyway, the question is these days before the house whether that is an epithet. What neither Pravda nor INS has revealed is what were the political affiliations of the group of women who, three nights later, greeted Khrushchev with a chorus of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”? (Bulganin joined in the singing.) Perhaps, for an encore, Khrushchev’s admirers will oblige him with a verse or two of “Onward Christian Soldiers.”

Moscow’s new “collective leadership” has its own notion of “the mellowing of the dictatorship” that has so impressed George Kennan. In recent weeks they have thrown out the Premier of Bulgaria and six members of the Polish Government. News has leaked out that at Tiflis (in Soviet Georgia) the MVD killed more than a hundred demonstrators. You got liquidated yesterday for one word against Stalin; and today, for one in his favor. The order is also out about the new spirit of friendship toward the imperialist world: Be mellow or be shot.