Word: khrushchevism
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Back from Bucharest, Patrick Gordon Walker, the British Labor Party's for eign affairs expert, says: "In Eastern Europe at the moment, Khrushchev has about six De Gaulles on his hands...
...Turn to Tito. What Khrushchev really wants from the Rumanians and the other "fraternal countries" is a mammoth conference in Moscow next fall to demonstrate Communist loyalty to the Soviet Union and denounce Peking. The satellites resist this because they fear, probably with reason, that if Khrushchev can clearly establish his mastery over Peking, he will then try to re-establish his mastery over Eastern Europe. In this dilemma, Moscow last week turned, ironically, to Yugoslavia's Tito, the man who by his defiance of Stalin in 1948 made himself the very symbol of "national Communism." Tito knew that...
...takes a good man to be so strongly opposed by Rockefeller and the big-money interests, Khrushchev and the Communists, U Thant and the internationalists, Senator Javits and the "liberals," Senator Kuchel and the anti-rightists. Votes are being generated for Goldwater by those united in opposition...
...project will pay for itself in new cropland and electric power, these benefits will not be fully realized for nearly a decade, during which Nasser needs even larger sums for industrial development, and already Egypt owes the Soviet bloc $800 million plus a large, secret bill for arms. Khrushchev hinted broadly that there would be further massive credits-even though some Russians complained that Moscow already had too many foreign aid commitments...
...crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow in 1956, a seat at the very top a year later, and finally that ultimate accolade of Communism, a niche for his ashes in the Kremlin wall...