Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago. Khrushchev not only received Harriman at the Kremlin, but drove him out into the country for an intimate little dinner with Kozlov, Mikoyan and Gromyko. Last week an alarmed Harriman cabled significant excerpts of the conversation to Washington for President Eisenhower to study, and repeated some of them in articles for LIFE and the North American Newspaper Alliance...
...Geneva. The experience was something like watching the cold war in quick time; in Khrushchev's dialogue, threats followed thaws in a matter of seconds instead of weeks. Now burbling toasts to peace, now bellowing belligerently, Khrushchev made no secret of his cynical contempt for the foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva. "Gromyko." he said, pointing to his Foreign Minister sitting glumly at the foot of the table, "only says what we tell him to say. At the next Geneva meeting he will repeat what he has already told you. If he doesn't, we will fire...
Switching to another mood, Khrushchev boasted that "in five to seven years we will be stronger than you. We developed the hydrogen bomb before you. Our rockets carry warheads many times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days...
...Most Unpopular Man." Once a pupil, Khrushchev still seemed to believe all that his masters had taught about conditions in the U.S. "You became so rich." he told Harriman. "that until now you have been able to bribe or buy off your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged...
...half a century, The Netherlands' devout ex-Queen Wilhelmina, 78, has devoutly considered Amsterdam's good, grey Algemeen Handelsblad a routine part of breakfast. But recently, Wilhelmina leafed through her favorite newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious...