Word: khrushchevism
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Kennedy was closely questioned about the contents of his communications with Khrushchev. Had he made any commitments of which the public remained unaware? No. Did his "no invasion" promise in effect guarantee Castro's continued, unhampered existence? Well, for one thing, Kennedy indicated that there would be no such pledge until the U.S.'s inspection terms were met. Even then, said Administration aides, it would remain a cardinal point of U.S. policy to see Castro unseated, if only through economic and political pressures. The U.S. has been urging its allies, with some success, to give up trade with...
...followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when the chips were down in Cuba, Kuusinen added, those who "beat their breasts were incapable of giving the slightest practical help to revolutionary Cuba...
...from Peking, who two weeks ago in Sofia had witnessed a purge of Red Chinese sympathizers and Stalinists in the Bulgarian Communist Party, would not be shouted down. The revisionists, he shot back, as usual using Tito as a synonym for Khrushchev, were "despicable traitors of the working class...
Nevertheless, fierce competition for dominance in the Communist world is a fact. There is no doubt that the Chinese would like to topple Khrushchev if they could. So far they have had precious few successes, though they are doing their best in world propaganda to show how resolute they are in India, how weak Khrushchev has been in Cuba. The belligerent and Spartan Peking line, perhaps required by Red China's own economic misery, may have some impact on the most doctrinaire of Communists around the world, but it is a backward and dated dogma that probably has less...
...Nikita Khrushchev remembered it last week, Stalin warned his colleagues: "If I die, you will all perish; the imperialists will strangle you." But, added Khrushchev with somewhat muted optimism, "We aren't dead; we are living and working and even pressing on imperialism...