Word: khrushchevism
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...leading up to another postponement of his dire Berlin threats. The "success" of the Wall in sealing the borders of the Soviet zone, declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet...
...Khrushchev did not so much as glance at Wu when, gesticulating, he demanded that the Red Chinese cool their "red-hot tempers," cease sneering at Moscow for its policy of coexistence with the West. Again he repeated his warning that the "imperialists" are no "paper tigers." The U.S., Nikita informed his gasping audience, has 40,000 atomic or nuclear warheads.† This, he cried, is more than enough. "During the first blow, 700-800 million people would die," cried the Russian Premier. "Dear Comrades, I'll tell you a secret. Our scientists have developed a 100-megaton bomb...
...First Bertrand Russell, 90, turtlenecked civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that it was a short letter...
Paralyzed by the notion that teaching about Communism might make some students Communists, and frightened by cold war controversy, most U.S. high schools evaded the subject for a decade after World War II. Now, the cultural lag having elapsed and Khrushchev having toned down Communist belligerence, schools are beginning to see the task as a scholarly opportunity for their history and social studies departments...
...class with considerably less plausibility. He blames the cold war on the paranoiac attitude of the American middle class (though reserving a few knocks for Russia too), and then in a concluding chapter-written little more than a year before the Cuban missile crisis-he assures his readers that Khrushchev wants to end the cold war so badly he would never think of trying to use Cuba as a military base against...