Khrushchev's words and his shoe banging

[Hanya Krill]

The UN record on Macmillan's comment:
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29th September, General Assembly Plenary Session
... Paragraph 129
"We have, I think, to recognize that some governments believe -- and this is the objection that the Soviet
representatives have often expressed in the past -- that inspection and control might be just a kind of
cover for espionage. Of course, let us be frank -- none of us would particularly welcome into our countries
the large number of officials from abroad who ..."

[My comment -- apparently this is where Khrushchev interrupted Macmillan's speech. Khruschev's
comment is not in the official record. Only the following appears in the documentation:]

(UN italics) Mr. Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, spoke in Russian from the Floor. (End italics)

... Paragraph 130
Mr. MACMILLAN, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: I should like that to be tranlsated if he wants to
say anything."
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- Hanya Krill
hanya at brama.com

On Sat, 3 May 2003 14:08:31 +0100, John Dunn
<J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK> wrote:
[...]
>
>Neither article quotes Khrushchev Senior's exact words (though see
>below), but the context described by the son does not necessarily
>support the phrase involving Kuz'kina mat', and I wonder if there is
>any unimpeachable source for this story.  I assume the story about
>the literal translation is apocryphal; Harold Macmillan, the British
>Prime Minister at the time, is supposed to have said 'Would someone
>please provide a translation', but this may also be apocryphal.
>
>In the final paragraph of the second article S. Khrushchev links the
>footwear incident with the burying phrase.  He gives the latter as:
>'Vzjat' zastup i poglubzhe poxoronit' imperializm' and complains that
>this was distorted by 'propagandists' to 'my vas poxoronim'.  I must
>admit that I always thought that the burying phrase came from a
>different visit to the United States.
>
>John Dunn.
>
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