Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis...
...Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, President Kennedy insisted that there was no room for compromise on the commitments that 'the U.S. has made for the defense of West Berlin. But the Soviet Premier was even more intransigent in his demands-and, just to make certain they were understood, he handed Kennedy a 2,000-word declaration of Soviet intentions. In that memorandum, Khrushchev demanded an immediate peace treaty to reunite Germany under Communist terms. That failing, as it must, he vowed to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, which by his way of thinking would then have...
Chicago's American was "profoundly thankful" that the Vienna summit conference had produced "no concrete result," and pronounced Kennedy's two encounters with Soviet Premier Khrushchev a negative success: "They were not a failure, but considering how disastrous failure could have been, that's good news enough." Said the Los Angeles Times with a grateful sigh: "If the cheers from our side are prompted more by relief than the evidence of accomplishment, there is good reason for them. The President of the United States has met with the boss of world Communism and comes away with...
Back a Better Man. Some observers ventured beyond such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full...
...recent visit to Canada (see THE NATION), Reston slyly suggested quite another diagnosis: "The official line in Washington is that President Kennedy hurt his back digging holes for trees in Canada, but there is another theory that he did it straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. If this theory is correct, it is not surprising, for the little comrade asked for the world with a ribbon around it, and blandly argued that Mr. Kennedy had no reasonable alternative but to accept his thesis...