Word: khrushchevism
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This bewildering combination of circumstances has an inhibiting effect on U.S. policy toward Cuba. There are people in the Administration who regard the Soviet presence with some equanimity, and even argue that it is necessary to take Khrushchev's sensibilities into account, and to understand that having already lost face in the Communist bloc by his missile withdrawal, he cannot afford to lose more by pulling his troops out under U.S. pressure. Khrushchev promised to withdraw them in "due course." and last week President Kennedy instructed Ambassador Foy Kohler to find out. in no combative way. what the Russians...
...train Cubans to export revolution and sabotage throughout Latin America. Moreover, by one White House estimate, at least 13,000 students from other Latin American nations are in Castro's Communist schools; about 100 graduate agents leave Cuba monthly to cause trouble back home. The tacit bargain with Khrushchev may have its advantages for the U.S., but it has them for Khrushchev...
...them than it does to us. Our interests are increasingly global, and a concession in one area may balance an equal or greater gain in another. Europe's interests are increasingly parochial, and they can make no sacrifices at all on their own continent. A tactician as skilled as Khrushchev can always present a limited threat, or the offer of a compromise bargain, which is in our interest but not in Europe's. And vice versa, of course...
...case of de Gaulle, it is last year's critique which is accurate. Since 1958 de Gaulle has constantly flanked the U.S. on the "right," just as the British have flanked us on the "left." From the French viewpoint there was grave concern when Khrushchev, during the Cube missiles crisis, opened a private pipeline which bypassed the Western allies and went straight to Kennedy. Now Kennedy, after dropping Skybolt without informing the British, is putting through the same pipeline a test ban treaty which the French don't like and on which they are not being consulted. Under these circumstances...
There once was an old Russian peasant woman, probably Nikita Khrushchev's grandmother, and she kept about a dozen chickens. One chicken, Charlie was her name, was a petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to punish her, Charlie just stopped laying eggs. So the crafty peasant woman taught the other chickens (whose names were Ludwig, Amintore, and Paul-Henri to peck Charlie, and she taught Charlie's baby chicks to form little circles around their mother so she couldn't move. The woman even told...