Word: dej
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's 90-odd Communist parties sometime in 1965. Nikita had hoped to convene his sub-summit this fall, but the recalcitrance of his Eastern European satellites-notably Poland and Rumania-forced him to delay. Both Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej feared that an open split with China would free Khrushchev's hand to impose tighter discipline on them, and both leaders had learned to like their new (but still quite relative) freedom...
...invitation, Khrushchev was careful to allay fears; indeed, the tone of the Pravda editorial was almost wheedling. It solemnly endorsed the "unity through diversity" that Gheorghiu-Dej has demanded, and swore that the purpose of the meeting was not to "excommunicate" anybody. Where earlier this year, Moscow had boasted that "nearly all" parties were in favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions...
...certainly did not please Nikita. No sooner had Maurer flown off to Paris in his special Tarom Airlines Ilyushin 18 than Nikolai Podgorny, Secretary of the Soviet Central Committee and Khrushchev's third-ranking lieutenant, flew in for a daylong fence-mending session with Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej...
Crossing the Line. It was the first time that the recalcitrant Rumanian's position had been acknowledged by the Soviet press, and the simple publication of Gheorghiu-Dej's argument for economic individualism was reinforced by the fact that the Russian ideologues offered no rebuttal. Actually a counter argument would have been useless, for last week teams of globe-trotting Rumanians were already busy crossing party lines all over the world, and making friends in the process...
Having acknowledged Rumania's right to pursue its economic future, Moscow hoped in return for help from Gheorghiu-Dej in the polemical struggle with Red China. But last week, when Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer returned from a nine-day Kremlin visit, it seemed that Rumanian cooperation would be limited at best. Khrushchev hopes to convene a huge Red rally-probably some time this fall-to read the Chinese Communists out of the movement...