Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-22
SPEECH
Premier at His Best
In Farewell to Coast

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prepared speech which Mr..
Khrushchey read.
From there, he swung into
an off-the-cuff discourse that
rambled around as much as
he did on a tour of the San
Francisco area yesterday by
boat and car.
All the way, he was bubbling
enthusiastically about what he
saw and the way he was
treated.
In fact. he got so carried
away with the spirit of goc[
will that he even was READY
to kiss and make up. after a
fashion. with Mayor Norris
Poulson of Los Angeles. Mr..
Poulson said some things Sat-
urday about a Khrushchev
speech that set Mr.. Khru-
shchev to boiling. He threat
ened to cut short his visit to
the United States and head
for home.
Foreign Trespassers"
But last night he said he had
received hints that Mr.. Poulson
is repentant.
Even the Christian teaching
tells us to forgive the tres
passes of others-if they un-
derstand they have treSpassed, "
the Premier grinned.
1t was just an unhappy Incl
dent. Mr.. KhruShchev said, and
now he is ready to consider it
closed.
But it was to the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce
that Mr.. Khrushchev must
have brought real joy. He
praised the city lavishly, as
beautiful. magnificent, hos
pitable. All the cities he has
visited in the United States are
good, he said, but San Fran
cisco is best of all"
Maybe some people turned
out by accident to see him. Mr..
Khrushchev said. but some
surely came out on purpose to
see what a Communist and
head Of another country was
like. He was pleased, he said.
by friendly smiles on their
faces.
"AmOng True Friends"
Il felt as if I were among
true friends who were thinking
the same thoughts that our
people in the Soviet Union are
thinking" he said.
In confirmation of this. he
went on. he had stopped his car
at random and asked an ordi-
nary housewife he met on the
street what she wanted most of
all in life. The reply. he said,
was peace and that there
should be no war"
The Premier picked up what
he called a memorable souvenir
of the city. He went to a union
hall, where a longshoreman
Iclapped a white cap on the
Premier's head and Mr.. Khru-
shchev handed over his own
gray felt in exchange.
And there there was a visit
to an International Business
Machines plant at nearby San
Jose. He had a lot of nice
things to say about that, too
but confessed he really doesn't
understand much about cleo
tronic computerS.
This reminded Mr.. Khru-
shchev of the time Soviet sci
entists invited government:
leaders to see the first rocket
Russia launched.
Trade Aims Plugged
We'll" he said. I'VE went
and looked at it. We looked at
it from this side, from t.,at
side: we looked down upon it;
we looked up at it. 1t must
have beehive thought it was
all very interesting indeed. But
what the thing was, none of us
knew"
On the weightier side, Mr.
KhruShchev put N more plugs
for expanded iet-United
States trade, for his plan for
complete disarmament of ma
tons, a permanent halt to nu-
clear weapons tests, and the
signing of peace treaties with
both East and West Germany
After his talk Mayor George
Christopher presented him with
a redwood gavel. The Pre-
mier said it isn't the Soviet
practice to use the things.
But he added, Il would
like to put this gavel to good
use in the Soviet Union and to
strike it after the signature OF
a treaty of friendship, non
aggression and eternal love be-
tween the peoples of the So
Wet Union and of the United
States of America.
Il would like for the first
time to use this gavel. also