Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calculated Risk. Just how well did Khrushchev's terror tactics work? Though he gloried in his role of modern-day Genghis Khan, the Soviet dictator took a calculated risk that his tests might so enrage the uncommitted nations that they would openly turn on Russia. As it turned out. almost all the neutralist nations professed disillusionment-although often couched in perfunctory language. "It is regrettable that Russia has proceeded with the test in spite of the appeal of the United Nations and other countries not to do so." said India's Nehru. "No amount of argument that...
...from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
Sadly Mistaken. On the other hand, if Khrushchev expected that he could bully and stampede the free world into a state of defenseless fear, he was sadly mistaken. "We must not be cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when...
...renewed testing was not based so much on fear of fallout as the feeling by some Government officials that the U.S. will suffer an international political disaster if it resumes atmospheric tests. The notion is that many unaligned nations and wavering neutrals will be glad to stop yelling at Khrushchev, who frightens them and pays no attention to them, and start yelling at the U.S., which acts the part of a gentleman and in the past has taken their complaints with utmost seriousness. Says USIA Chief Edward R. Murrow: "Editorial writers in the non-Communist-bloc countries have just about...
India is still capable of some strangely irrational attitudes, notably in the U.N., where Nehru's delegates still urge an immediate, uninspected, unenforceable nuclear test ban. Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon argues that Khrushchev was forced into the new Russian bomb tests by the U.S., an attitude that U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Dean acidly describes as pro-Soviet neutralism. In view of Menon's rantings, the U.S. particularly wants to explain to Nehru the military realities in Laos and South Viet...