Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uses of Thunder. But though they sympathized with Macmillan, some of the neutralists were distressed by the cold-war thunder his speech evoked from Khrushchev. In shrewd awareness of this effect, Khrushchev continued to denigrate Britain's Prime Minister. Chatting with newsmen as he awaited Macmillan's ar rival for a private conference with him, Khrushchev, with deliberate offensiveness, compared him with a man whose policies Macmillan, as a prewar M.P., had bitterly opposed-Neville Chamberlain. Said Khrushchev: "Chamberlain said he had come to terms with Hitler and there would be no war. Macmillan said he had talked...
With the titans staring each other down, the neutralists seized their chance to be helpful. Most of their ideas seemed to be aimed at appeasing Khrushchev in order to display their even-handedness between East and West. With the support of some African delegates embittered by alleged rude treatment at the hands of New York waiters and cab drivers, Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno told the Assembly that he favored Khrushchev's proposal to move U.N. headquarters away from New York to an "uncommitted nation." At week's end, Tito summoned all the top neutralists...
Once More the Gavel. This was the best break Khrushchev had got all week. A meeting with Dwight Eisenhower, without any Khrushchev concessions or apologies in advance, would be a Soviet diplomatic victory. Apparently encouraged, Khrushchev decided to thunder some more. He turned up at the U.N., got the floor, seizing on a Nepalese motion calling for full Assembly debate on the question of Red China's admission...
Padding up to the rostrum, Khrushchev began with a deceptively calm appeal to the neutralists. Said he: "There cannot be any disarmament without China. There cannot be any normal work of the United Nations without China." Then, as the spirit moved him, he embarked on wholesale denunciation of the West and all its works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain...
Spanish Delegate Jose Felix de Lequerica sprang shouting to his feet, treating Khrushchev to a taste of the same medicine he had administered to Macmillan. Furiously, Khrushchev babbled on, ignoring both Lequerica and the gaveling of Assembly President Boland, until at last he noticed that his microphone had been turned off and translation of his speech discontinued. To Boland's gentle reminder that it was out of order to make personal attacks on another chief of state, Khrushchev snarled: "What would happen to the U.N. if you do not admit China and if we were to go away from...