European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Feature � Nikita Khrushchev Good will visits often turn sour russian Premier most travelled red Leader of them All has found several times that cold War blasts got him into hot water Nikita Khrushchev May be the most travelled russian Leader of mod Ern times but As an ambassador of Good will he has proven to be something Les than a resounding Success. His past record and a notable Lack of tact have been his main handicaps since arriving on the top of the Kremlin Heap the balding Chunky soviet Premier has made at least 17 trips outside Russia six of them beyond the Iron. Curtain. . Junke t next month will be the 18th. Khrushchev s first plunge. Into International travel took him to Yugoslavia in May 1955, on a Fence mending pilgrimage to marshal Tito. He apologized to Tito for the letter s expulsion from the  trip also was designed to show the outside world that russian leadership had changed since the Days  dour , bursting with geniality even wrestled with Anastas Mikoyan in a , it was Geneva arid the july 1955 Summit conference  he met presi Dent Eisenhower for the first time. The conference produced a spirit of Good will which soon foundered on the rocks of reality. A Brief Jaunt to satellite Romania in August 1955 set the stage for a month Lon tour of Southern Asia with his sidekick then Premier Nikolai Bulgarin. B & k they were  Man in the Street in India received them with such warmth that they were prompted to take off on Western colonial by Tom Henshaw a staff writer ism to the embarrassment of the Indian government. T h e influential Hindustan times accused them of misusing their triumphal tour for blatant attacks on the West the next Stop for b & k was London i april .1956, travelling Man Khrushchev s a closest Brush with fiasco. When a British Workman Shook his fist at the visitors Khrushchev burned. Never shake your fist at a russian he said in a later speech. Then he boastfully announced a new development in Russia Hydrogen bombs. It did t set at All Well with the  was Back in Yugoslavia the following september to discuss economic problems with Tito and take a. Short Vaca Tion with the yugoslav dictator on the re sort Island of  month later during a critical period of relations Between Russia and her Satel Lites he paid a tense hurried Call on the poles in an attempt to apply the brakes to a rising polish  Success was. Moderate. Under Wladys Law Gomulka an anti stalinist Poland  under soviet domination but with an Independence unheard of in the satellite world. Next it was b & a the roving russians in Finland where the reception was As Cool As the climate. Finnish president urho Kekkonen told them bluntly Finland s foreign policy has been a policy of Neces  Khrushchev returned to Moscow from Helsinki just in time to nip an attempt to overthrow him by the Malenkos Molotov Kaganovich Combine. Like the Western she Riff who has to show himself in the Street to prove he has t lost his nerve Khrushchev then skipped off to Czecho Slovakia. Early 1958 was a period of Fence mend ing. There was a trip to Poland in january Hungary in april and Bulgaria in  Budapest where an uprising had been crushed less than 18 months before he Hada warning for the West Don t step into anyone else s  Khrushchev s most important travel in1958 brought him to piping in August for a meeting with fellow communist Motse Tung. The hastily prepared conference set off diplomatic speculation around the  russian Leader was on the verge of accepting a Summit conference at the United nations where nationalists hold the chinese seat. Red China was loudly against it. The conference never came off. Unanswered questions stemming fro the piping meeting did Mao summon Khrushchev were there now two capitals of the communist world Khrushchev has not been outside Theiron curtain for the past year. He has been in East Germany Albania Hungary and Poland apparently securing things for his biggest Sally into the free world . In september. May 1955 w55 India Brm of Wutti  sf�t.,v95 b pm w5f flfj4 Ott i919s7 Hungary april 1958 $ Elm Formby myth 1959 jw�,1958 so toy August 29, 1959 ,._., _ the stars and stripes