Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his end-of-week conferences with President Kennedy in Washington, Britain's Harold Macmillan stopped off in Manhattan to speak to the American Newspaper Publishers Association. In the past, Macmillan has shown an eagerness to negotiate with Russia's Khrushchev not always shared by America. Said he now to the publishers: "Our duty is surely simple-to be firm but patient, never to yield and never to give ground, but never to take provocative action ourselves; and to wait maybe one, maybe two generations, maybe more, until in God's good time the ordinary peoples...
Paper Utopia. In Khrushchev's script, the crowning achievement was to have been last October's 22nd Party Congress at which delegates from 81 Communist nations dutifully ratified the Khrushchev Code, a glittering prospectus for Communism's future by which Nikita hoped to add Khrushchevism to Marxism-Leninism. Yet his paper utopia seemed impossibly remote to most Russians. As a thundering anticlimax, Khrushchev in March unveiled his new blueprint for agriculture, leaving no doubt that the inertia and inefficiency of Russia's farm system will not be overcome in Khrushchev's lifetime, if ever...
With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...
...Izvestia had allotted to Popovic. But there was more to Gromyko's appearance in Belgrade than such formalities indicated. On the government level, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have become steadily warmer, even though party propagandists still practice the name-calling inspired by Tito's 1948 split with Stalin. Khrushchev, faced with the new threat of a more serious break with Red China, has gradually made peace with Tito, who has used his considerable influence among European Communists to urge support for Khrushchev's destalinization policies. Plainly, Gromyko's visit marked the Kremlin's public acknowledgment...
Tragic Blunder. Many papers and columnists shared the Wall Street Journal's incredulous despair. "A warning to all Americans," editorialized the 86-year-old Nashville Banner, "that the day of Free Enterprise is drawing to a close. Khrushchev could be right when he said: 'Your grandchildren will live under Socialism...