Word: khrushchevism
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Late into the night before the interview with Khrushchev, the group held intensive discussions on what subjects they hoped to cover. Khrushchev greeted them at the door of the Oval Hall in the Kremlin, shook hands with each, and after much picture taking, cracked: "You think the Communists are in control here, but you see the photographers are in control." He did not wait long to tell the party that "capitalism is a dirty word" in Russia, but he spoke with a smiling, bantering kind of informality...
...that three-hour session, which ranged over a vast area of issues and propaganda (see THE WORLD), Khrushchev was told that we proposed to report fully on the meeting and assumed that he had no objection. That was quite an assumption, considering the usual Soviet practice, but he replied: "That is your right. You are certainly free to use it." A TIME working contingent spent the next seven hours preparing a verbatim transcript, for we had decided that this unique interview should be shared directly with the press of the world. We released the complete text to the entire Western...
...other later encounters with the TIME group Khrushchev maintained the same jocularly tough mood. When the conversation at a reception turned to food, he indicated that he was wor ried about a common executive problem. "I weighed myself today," he confided, "and I weighed 96 kilos (212 Ibs.). But I used to weigh 97, so things are not so bad." Characteristically, he could not resist a little needling. "We want you to be fat," he said, "because that's unhealthy. We shall become thin, and that's good for us, anyway...
...convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group of 21 U.S. executives visiting Moscow (see THE WORLD), it could have meant war. "It is a matter of a soldier being a soldier," he said. "If someone wants to break through, then it is in the natural course of things that force will...
...G.I.s settled down for a long wait, setting up latrine screens off the road and eating hot meals brought in by MPs from nearby Helmstedt, Western statesmen weighed the implications of the blockade. After all, as Khrushchev remarked last week, "A soldier is not a foreign minister. He cannot enter into negotiations and he has to carry out his orders. That is the law for both our soldiers and yours." British and French officials agreed to stage a show of support for the U.S. by mounting convoys of their own to test the Russians. But the Russians waved the allied...