Word: khrushchev
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AUGUST 1958-After a series of letters between Bulganin, Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Russia, Britain and the U.S. agree to begin negotiations for the suspension of nuclear tests...
With painful memories of the short-lived "Spirit of Geneva" in 1955 and the evanescent "Spirit of Camp David" in 1959, U.S. officials refuse to regard Khrushchev's joviality as a true barometer of East-West relations. Yet from the atmosphere around the conference table, there was evidence that a new and possibly somewhat more durable Spirit of Moscow was in the making...
...Chair. The easy mood prevailed from the moment the negotiators arrived. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman brought with him three tons of telephone equipment, for the "hot line" that is to link the White House and the Kremlin in emergencies. At the first meeting, Harriman, 71, was greeted by Khrushchev with a cheery "You're absolutely blooming. What are you doing, counting your years backward?" When Britain's top envoy, Viscount Hailsham, said that Moscow's weather was better than London's, Khrushchev replied: "We could perhaps find some place for you here. You could...
Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...
During the early sessions, it almost seemed that easy. Khrushchev said that, since it had been impossible to reach agreement on a full ban in the past, the time had come to achieve more by attempting less. He gave Soviet approval to a limited ban which would cover all tests except those underground, repeating his familiar opposition to onsite inspections of possible underground blasts. As usual, Gromyko argued that such inspections were unnecessary anyway, in view of long-range seismic detection devices. When the sudden crash of an accidentally overturned chair startled the delegates, Gromyko said quickly: "This is confirmation...