Word: khrushchevism
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...access to the West might be guaranteed in exchange for the West's agreement to "respect" East German sovereignty. Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had gone over the same ground in their September talks in Washington and New York. But Kroll excitedly buttonholed Nikita Khrushchev on the subject a little later in the evening. Khrushchev asked Kroll to drop over to his office for a chat soon, and when Kroll presented himself two days later, Nikita said jovially: "Tell me how to get out of this Berlin situation." Kroll told him-for an hour...
...death three months earlier had the men at the top seemed so jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
Flynn attacked a proposal of George Gilder '61-3 to "conduct the arms race so vigorously that Khrushchev will realize the threat of force will not intimidate the West." The Tocsin member termed Gilder's suggestion "a proposal which says the United States cannot afford to co-exist with the Soviet Union except by perpetuating this conflict." The inherent weakness of this position, he asserted, is that it "would cause no change of the principles on which both are operating...
...overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator." As the mobs grew more threatening, police fired on the rampaging demonstrators; in Guayaquil one day they killed eight students, a newspaper reporter and two day laborers...
...manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons. But at the height of the fire the former Vice President, not taking any chances, first evacuated the manuscript of his memoirs and a taped account of his Moscow "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev, later hustled back with Wife Pat to retrieve some personal possessions. Sighed Nixon after the event: "I have seen trouble all over the world, but nothing like this...