Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Pope John XXIII also aided the cause by issuing an encyclical (see RELIGION) that called cooperation between advanced and underdeveloped nations one of the world's greatest social needs. But the program's real push came, ironically, from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, whose continuing threats have stirred up an atmosphere of crisis that makes a strong foreign aid program a near certainty. Observed one aid advocate: "The Soviets every year seem to pull the same stuff that snaps everyone to attention and gets this bill passed...
...Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...
...West. One reason was the new food shortage in East Germany, which had brought tighter rationing of potatoes and butter, new crackdowns by Red Boss Walter Ulbricht. But the overriding impulse that sent East Germans by the hundreds surging across the frontier was a cold fear inspired by Nikita Khrushchev and his threat to provoke a new Berlin crisis...
...address, French President Charles de Gaulle warned that the Russians were trying "to settle unilaterally the fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
Everybody from movie stars to dictators can use front men. In the threatened Berlin crisis, Khrushchev's front man is Walter Ulbricht, 68, the grim, goateed boss of East Germany. When Khrushchev tries reassurances, Ulbricht offsets them with threats. When Khrushchev assures the West that he has no thought of a Berlin blockade, Ulbricht growls that supplies to the U.S., British and French garrisons will be blocked and their planes shot down...