Word: khrushchevism
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...convening of the 14-power conference; berated the U.S. and Britain for dragging their feet on the conference proposal. The U.S. opposes a large conference mostly because the Communists would be bound to entangle it in propaganda maneuvers concerning the war in South Viet Nam. From Moscow Nikita Khrushchev sent a message supporting the conference plan. And Charles de Gaulle, offering to work for a compromise, in a letter to Sihanouk counseled patience in the year's most magnificent diplomatic hyperbole: "I trust in the calm wisdom of Your Royal Highness...
This week, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Budapest to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the victory, he will find the army of liberation still in position. And for good reason: in 1956 it took a brutal commitment of Russian tanks and terror to crush the valiant attempt of the Hungarians to throw out their "liberators...
That urbane unflappability became further apparent during the two weeks in 1959 when Lodge was assigned to shepherd visiting Nikita Khrushchev around the U.S. In cornfields, factories and cities, Lodge was the man who represented America to the Russians, and in the process he got to know Khrushchev on an informal basis...
Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...
Presumably, it was too early-and too embarrassing-to talk about actual abandonment of the whole scheme and the return of the workers to more fruitful pursuits elsewhere in the Soviet Union. After all, Khrushchev's reputation was at stake, which was why Pravda last week was still calling the experiment "a remarkable page in our country's history...