Word: khrushchevism
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...Administration, as far as anyone on the outside knew, had put no strong pressure on the Soviet Union by insisting that U.N. inspectors be allowed into Cuba by a specified deadline-or else. To many, this tolerant attitude suggested that Kennedy may have struck some kind of understanding with Khrushchev in some of their still-secret correspondence. Top Administration officials vehemently denied any such deal, beyond the no-invasion pledge in return for the missile removal...
There were moments last week when the Kremlin seemed to have less trouble coexisting with the U.S. than with the Communist bloc (or blocs). While the world was positively smothered in peace talk from Moscow about how Nikita Khrushchev's wisdom had prevented a war between the U.S. and Russia, there were audible rumblings of dissension in the Communist realm...
...reception in the Palace of Congresses banquet hall, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Nikita Khrushchev presented the picture of a man bouncing back in great style from his own Cuban fiasco. In one of his most dazzling displays of personal diplomacy, he seemed relaxed, relieved and philosophical. "Who won and who lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead...
Rude Silence. Also giving the soft line a hard sell was one of Khrushchev's oldest cronies. First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who hailed "concessions made by both sides to peace and sanity" in Moscow's missile misadventure in the Caribbean. Regarding Berlin, Kosygin omitted the usual Communist demand that Western troops quit the city and did not refer, even vaguely, to a deadline for a separate Soviet peace treaty with East Germany. Next day, Defense Chief Rodion Malinovsky reduced his professional rocket-rattling to below last year's noise level, reviewed an eight-minute march-past...
Usually the Bolshevik anniversary is the occasion for an informal Red summit. But as of last week, Khrushchev seemed eager to avoid such mass meetings. He sent no invitations at all to Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam, and called in his East European allies to Moscow one by one for quick briefings on Cuba. Last to arrive and last to leave was Hungary's Janos Kadar...