Word: khrushchevism
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...news came in Washington, where Secretary of State Dean Rusk was proposing a change in U.S. policy. After all the talk of a new Berlin agreement, the U.S. seemed, in effect, ready to settle for the status quo-including the Wall. In exchange, the U.S. expected Nikita Khrushchev to relax some of his pressure on Berlin, agree informally to a modus vivendi that would leave Western rights in the city undisturbed...
...three posts, Kennan's is probably the trickiest, because of Yugoslavia's own anomalous situation-a thoroughgoing Communist state that broke with Stalin in 1948, has been heavily aided by the West ever since, is now generally subservient to Khrushchev in foreign policy but proclaims itself neutral. To start with, Ambassador Kennan hoped Tito Communists would be more "objective" than Soviet comrades, that with care and cultivation Tito might be induced to practice true neutrality. For four months, says an old Belgrade hand, Kennan "thought his personality and techniques were reshaping Tito's thinking"-a mistake Historian...
...said: "There would be hell in the world if this happened." He also temporized on the question of Red China, hedged on whether he would demand that the Red Chinese withdraw from the 14,000 square miles of Indian territory that they occupy. Nehru publicly thanked Nikita Khrushchev for his understanding of the "motives and ideas" behind the Indian invasion, said that he deplored the Western condemnation of the action. "I do not like this division of opinion-to put it very crudely, white and black," he said. "It is a bad sign, but there it is. I have been...
...Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
...Chinese, they were growing even more outspoken against Khrushchev; in Hong Kong the pro-Communist newspaper Ching Po found him even worse than Chiang Kaishek: "He decks himself out in satellites, spaceships and supernuclear bombs. He resorts to pinning the 'personality cult' label on the two leaders [Stalin and Hoxha], thereby subjecting himself to ridicule by the Western bloc...