Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Small Dividends. For all his buoyancy, Khrushchev's only concrete achievement of the week resulted from an afternoon visit with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Afterward, Khrushchev told newsmen that he had Macmillan's assurance "that a summit conference would take place" early next year when the U.S. had a new President. Pending such a meeting, if held on schedule, he piously promised that Russia would make no effort to change the status of Berlin...
...Khrushchev's assiduous wooing of the small nations paid some dividends. Though they were still skittish about his attacks on Dag Hammarskjold, some of them listened attentively to Khrushchev's demand that the U.N. be redesigned and headed by a triumvirate of Western, Communist and neutral powers. In typically tentative fashion, Nehru argued, "The structure of the U.N. when it started was weighted in favor of Europe and the Americas. Although the executive should not be weakened, probably some structural changes would be desirable...
Frankly Puzzled. In contrast to Khrushchev's gambols, the U.S. seemed strangely immobile. "We hardly ever exchange views with the Americans," said a Malagasy delegate. "It's regrettable that your diplomats are not more active." Africans wondered why they were hearing no more from U.S. delegates of the five-point plan for African development announced by President Eisenhower last month. Most were frankly puzzled by U.S. failure to entertain visiting potentates or even to mingle freely at the almost nightly parties and receptions...
Since Eisenhower's brief visit, there has been no American at the U.N. to match the glamour or personal flamboyance of a Khrushchev, Macmillan, Nehru or Nkrumah. Secretary of State Christian Herter and U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth doggedly maintain the U.S. position in debates, but have shown little inclination for genial politicking in the Delegates Lounge. The U.S. aloofness was a deliberate and official policy. The argument: with the heavy agenda of the 15th General Assembly, the U.S. hoped to set a lofty example of hard work...
...Radio Moscow admitted "alarming" delays in harvesting grain in Kazakhstan, Khrushchev's favorite Central Asian "virgin lands" region, which was counted on to boost this year's grain harvest 6% above 1958's 141 million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar...