Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned Khrushchev by name that he could choose between trying to make a better life for the Russian people or, by trying to export Communism, lead them into a world of fear and suspicion...
Whatever the long-range results of the handshaking, the oratorical sparring, the wide-ranging travels, it seemed likely that the first, short-range result would be a trip by Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S. "On balance," said Nixon in a press conference just before leaving Moscow for Warsaw, "I believe that some time Mr. Khrushchev should be invited to come to the U.S." Khrushchev, he said, "still has some very real misconceptions regarding both our policy and the attitude of our people. A trip would serve to reduce and to remove these misconceptions...
Inspecting Nixon's Boeing 707 jet, Khrushchev said he would like to visit the U.S. "when the time is ripe." In Geneva, where the Big Four foreign ministers' conference sputtered toward a stalemated end, word leaked that the U.S. had sounded out its allies on inviting Khrushchev and found them in favor...
...Premier Khrushchev takes this slogan to mean "working for a better life for the people within the Soviet Union, that is one thing. If on the other hand he means the victory of Communism over the U.S. and other countries, this is a horse of a different color. For we have our own ideas as to what system is best...
...devotes his immense energies and talents to building a better life for the people of his own country. Mr. Khrushchev can go down in history as one of the greatest leaders the Soviet people have ever produced. But if he diverts the resources and talents of his people to the objective of promoting the communization of countries outside the Soviet Union, he will only assure that both he and his people will continue to live in an era of fear, suspicion and tension...