Word: khrushchevism
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...step into your grave," the Chinese taunted in a letter to the Soviets. "But since you have made up your mind, you will most probably call it anyway. Otherwise, by breaking your word, would you not become a laughingstock down the centuries?" The 9,500-word polemic called Khrushchev's meeting "arbitrary, unilateral and illegal," and in the viciousness of its tone helped to widen the already gaping split between the two Red nations. To end the letter on a properly inscrutable note, the Chinese chose a poetic refrain from the Sung Dynasty...
...Gheorghe Maurer, Premier of Rumania and the first East European satellite Prime Minister to pay an official visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they meekly bow to Moscow's bidding in the ideological battle with China...
...week's business was a Franco-Rumanian pact promising increased scientific and technical cooperation. And that certainly did not please Nikita. No sooner had Maurer flown off to Paris in his special Tarom Airlines Ilyushin 18 than Nikolai Podgorny, Secretary of the Soviet Central Committee and Khrushchev's third-ranking lieutenant, flew in for a daylong fence-mending session with Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu...
More Than a Press Pass. If Red China and Rumania put Nikita on the defensive, he was nonetheless preparing for an offensive of his own in another direction. In one of those gestures of détente toward the West that so aggravate his Chinese Communist adversaries, Khrushchev called in a visiting "capitalist-imperialist" for a 21-hour chat in the Premier's Kremlin office. The visitor was none other than David Rockefeller, of Wall Street and the Chase Manhattan Bank, who had been attending a meeting in Leningrad when Nikita summoned him. In a "relaxed, friendly, even though...
Erhard seemed willing enough to meet Khrushchev, assured the guest that the agenda would be "unrestricted" -which meant that Nikita could talk all he wanted to about the evils of NATO membership, and Erhard would be able to raise at will the question of German reunification. Though Khrushchev still has to say "da" before a formal invitation from Bonn is forthcoming. But there was no question that both leaders seemed to feel that they had nothing to lose by such a meeting -and possibly something to gain...