Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into negotiations. Last week he ordered the withdrawal of France from a planned London meeting of Allied representatives to discuss Germany's future; his decision caused the cancellation of the sessions. De Gaulle feels strongly that the West must not allow itself to be threatened into negotiations by Khrushchev. De Gaulle himself has long ago conceded the Oder-Neisse line, and France at best pays only lip service to German reunification. De Gaulle's emphasis is on the maintenance of present Allied rights in West Germany and Berlin. He stands staunch against any sort of disengagement in Central...
...Gaulle's decision not to participate in the London talks, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home expressed his feelings to French Ambassador Jean Chauvel in strong terms. The British argue that substantive concessions can be won from the Soviet Union at the negotiating table, and they point to Khrushchev's changed timetable for an East German treaty as evidence. In further negotiations, Britain might be willing to offer de facto recognition to East Germany and to accept the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent division. But Britain has shown no sign of abandoning its insistence on the eventual reunification...
...about Germany were making headlines last week, the fact was that the Allies' positions on Germany were closer than at any time in months, and there was no longer any substantive reason for fearing that German freedom might be traded for a troublous, temporary peace. Russia's Khrushchev would do well to understand that if he ever does start the shooting over Berlin, Western differences will be forgotten and the Allies will be standing together. Khrushchev would be lucky if he could say the same of his own, bullet-enforced Communist alliance...
Broken Windows. After the visiting Communist VIPs filed onstage beneath a giant silvery head of Lenin embossed on purple plastic, the 13 members of the Soviet Party Presidium came on from stage left, headed by a fit-looking, somewhat thinner Nikita Khrushchev. "I propose we begin to work," said Party Secretary Khrushchev briskly. "The 22nd Congress is now in session...
...Khrushchev was in top form. For six hours on opening day he ranted and rambled his way through foreign affairs. Next day he held forth for another six hours in an increasingly hoarse voice on the subject of Soviet domestic triumphs. Groggy but game, the delegates stayed with...