Word: khrushchevism
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...Kohler went on to distinguish himself by ability and hard work in Ankara, returned to Washington in 1958 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. In 1959 he was the top State Department official accompanying Vice President Nixon to the U.S.S.R., and had charge of arrangements for Premier Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. The next year he was made an Assistant Secretary of State. Last summer, at the height of the crisis over Allied air access to West Berlin, it was Kohler who drafted an unusually strong protest accusing the Soviet Union of a "scarcely veiled threat...
...ades. The force that Kennedy saluted and wooed, that De Gaulle contemplated with "joy," and Khrushchev regards with fury is, in fact, a New Europe-proof of the Continent's ability always to find in the ashes of its destruction the foundation for new triumph. After the moral and material devastation of World War II, perhaps the worst since the Black Death, Europe once again rose up with a new façade, new customs, a thriving culture, and a booming new prosperity that has made it the industrial rival of the two great powers. On the following twelve...
...attack was actually aimed at quite another Mr. K. Following the rules by which these games are played, it was possible to learn what the Chinese meant by substituting Khrushchev's name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much...
...from each according to his ability and to each according to his need.' And I believe that represents the Communist belief and I accept it." Still angry, he went on to say that he admired Fidel Castro as "the greatest liberator of the 20th century," and admired Nikita Khrushchev as well...
...Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. A dogged little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 lbs.) career man for 31 years, Kohler was the top-ranking State Department official to accompany Richard Nixon on his 1959 tour of the U.S.S.R.. was in charge of arrangements for Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. later that year. Thompson will become a special adviser to the State Department on Soviet affairs, replacing Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, who may move on to the Paris embassy in a midsummer round of musical chairs...