Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private correspondence between President Kennedy and Soviet Party Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis shows that Khrushchev vehemently challenged the U.S. quarantine, warning of "catastrophic consequences for world peace...
...letter of October 23, the day after Kennedy's speech announcing the quarantine, Khrushchev wrote "that the armaments which are in Cuba, regardless of the classification to which they may belong, are intended solely for defensive purposes in order to secure the Republic of Cuba against the attack of an aggressor...
...Khrushchev letter also disputed the legality of the quarantine, saying the "United Nations Charter and international norms give no right to any state to institute in international waters the inspection of vessels bound for the shores of the Republic of Cuba...
...during a particularly troubled moment in U.S.-Soviet relations, Khrushchev collared Bohlen at another reception. "I want to talk to you about Suez...
During the 1950s Bohlen served four years as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, reporting on the rise and fall of Premier Georgy Malenkov, the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev, the Suez crisis and the Hungarian revolution. Khrushchev apparently loved to trade quips with him. At a diplomatic party, the Russian dictator once remarked to Bohlen that Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was putting away the refreshments "as if he had starved for a week...