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...panic in such preparations, and the nation's basic mood was well expressed by Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Georgia's Atlanta University. Said he: "If we back down at any time because of threats, it will inevitably lead to surrender. The Soviets have decided to frighten the free world into accepting their aim. They must be met-calmly...
...military reasons for Khrushchev's decision, its timing and tone were clearly designed with the primary and primitive object of creating an aura of terror. The immediate object was 1) to divide and cow the Western powers themselves in the approach to the negotiation table, 2) to frighten the neutrals into clamoring for Western concessions in Berlin at any cost. In fact, he tacitly admitted as much last week to two visiting left-wing British politicians. He told them frankly that he had resumed nuclear testing to shock the West into negotiations on Germany. And, having just torpedoed...
...Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
...main blast virtually destroyed the few remaining hopes that Moscow might agree to a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. To President Kennedy's warning that the U.S. might have to begin testing again if no agreement is reached in Geneva, Khrushchev retorted: "Such threats will frighten no one. We must warn these gentlemen: the moment the United States resumes nuclear explosions, the Soviet Union will promptly start testing its nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union has quite a few devices that have been worked out and need practical testing." In fact, said Khrushchev, echoing an argument often made by protesting...
...comments of Senator Goldwater [June 16] and his disciples frighten the hell out of me. His suicidal ideas would have led him to martyrdom and glory had he existed during the revolutionary period, but in 1961 they are as out of place as Liz Taylor at a Tupperware* party...