Any Sucking Dove
MR. KIIRUSHCIIEV continues to be what Time Times correspondent has learned in Wash- ington to describe as 'interestingly conciliatory.' His speech on Saturday to the Supreme Soviet contained kind words for the Western leaders, regrets for Chinese behaviour on the Indian fron- tier, and promises of 'friendly give-and-take' to achieve peaceful co-existence. Mr. Khrushchev sees the personal and the national benefits to conic from agreement and disarmament, and he wants them now, with a peasant's or a child's impatience. He is safe in the saddle at home, but no Soviet leader can be too safe. And even a hard and ruth- less man, as Mr. Khrushchev has shown himself in his rise to power, may still -cherish the perfectly respectable ambition to go down in Russian his- tory as the leader •who, after. Stalin had won the war, created the prosperity at home for which peace abroad is essential.
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