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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow on Saturday after diplomatic clashes in Paris and Berlin, receiving a massive welcome boycotted by the U.S. Charge d'Affairs over Khrushchev's remarks likening Eisenhower to a thief amid the U-2 incident. Khrushchev calmed fears on Berlin in a speech.
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By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW. (P) - Premier Nikita Khrushchev came home Saturday from a week of diplomatic encounters that shook the world. Russians by the thousands were called out to give him an unusually elaborate welcome, but President Eisenhower's envoy boycotted the ceremonies.
Edward Freer, U. S. Charge d'Affairs said he stayed away because there had been no clarification of Khrushchev's news conference remarks in Paris Wednesday. Khrushchev had likened Eisenhower to a thief.
Representatives of the other members of the Western Big Three, Britain and France, attended the ceremonies along with the rest of the diplomatic corps, the Communist Party Presidium and a great crowd of ordinary Russians.
Hundreds of thousands lined the road into Moscow to cheer Khrushchev and show their support for his moves in Paris and his speech Friday in Berlin.
Freer said only a few minutes before Khrushchev's arrival he became aware that "some confusion existed" about Khrushchev's remarks.
"Since no clarification was immediately possible," he said, "it seemed appropriate to me, in order to avoid embarrassment for all concerned, not to proceed to the airport. I had no time to contact the other diplomats."
Moscow Radio, in an English-language broadcast beamed to North America, denied that any cracks in the solidity of the Kremlin hierarchy led to Khrushchev's moves stopping the summit parley.
"There are no internal difficulties or differences in the Soviet government or parliament," said the broadcast, "nor are there any divergences between the position of the government and the people. In the Soviet Union there are no forces behind the scenes that affect the government."
Khrushchev's manner at the airport was calm and smiling. He flew in from Berlin, where he cooled fears Friday by saying the Soviet Union would not press for a new German status, which would include the departure of the allies from West Berlin, for the next six to eight months.
In an hour-long speech Friday to 8,000 Communists in East Berlin. Khrushchev repeated his denunciations of President Eisenhower over the U-2 spy plane incident.
Khrushchev repeated his demand that a peace treaty be signed "with the two German states that actually exist." But he made no threats for the immediate future.
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Moscow
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Saturday After Paris Wednesday And Berlin Friday
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u.s. charge d'affairs boycotted welcome ceremonies; moscow radio denied internal soviet issues; khrushchev stated no press for new german status for 6-8 months and demanded peace treaty with two german states without immediate threats.
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow Saturday from diplomatic encounters in Paris and Berlin, receiving elaborate welcome from thousands of Russians, Communist Party Presidium, and Western diplomats except U.S. Charge d'Affairs Edward Freer, who boycotted due to unclear remarks by Khrushchev likening Eisenhower to a thief over U-2 incident. Hundreds of thousands cheered his Paris moves and Berlin speech where he denounced Eisenhower, demanded peace treaty with existing German states, but calmed fears by delaying pressure on Berlin status. Moscow Radio denied internal Kremlin divisions causing summit halt.