Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corridor Incidents. But despite Gromyko's willingness to confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts...
...precarious balance and, as President Kennedy well knew, there was a strong possibility that the tension in this jungle-filled corner of the earth might soon match the war of nerves in Berlin, 5,000 long miles away. But in terms of formulating policy, the U.S. had little choice. Khrushchev had started the crisis, and its relaxation or intensification was up to him. The U.S. could only await his next move-and prepare to defend freedom wherever threatened...
Peace, Above All. Back at his White House office, Kennedy pointed his guests to couches, settled down in his rocking chair. The talk, which lasted nearly an hour, was all about Berlin. The President warned that the U.S. could not go to a summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev unless the Soviet Union guaranteed the Allied right of access to West Berlin. Bluntly, he told his guests of his disappointment because the Belgrade conference had been harsher in judgment on the U.S. than on the Soviet Union. In answer, Sukarno said that the neutrals were interested in their own economic problems...
Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered 1,000 marchers to the Soviet embassy in London, but only 200 turned up to picket the U.S. embassy after the U.S. announced it would resume tests. C.N.D. Chairman Canon Collins insisted halfheartedly: "At present, it is Mr. Khrushchev who is shouting threats loudest, but we have to remember that both sides are to blame." Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 was more inflexible, handed out blue leaflets declaring, "America, we denounce you. The decision by the American Government to resume nuclear tests is criminal. It in no way is justified...
...neutralists dithered and Khrushchev cracked his grim jokes, the Communists kept up their harassment of West Berlin, complaining that some of the passengers flying in from West Germany were "revanchists, militarists, spies and subversives." This, said Moscow, must cease forthwith. Tartly, the U.S., Britain and France replied with joint notes, bluntly reminding the Soviets that the passenger traffic in the corridors to Berlin is no business of the Communists. A passenger buys a ticket, boards his plane and goes. This, said the U.S., is "well understood in societies where free men regulate their own lives in accordance with free choice...