Word: khrushchevism
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...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...
Italy's ambitious Premier Amintore Fanfani has long yearned to take a crack at one of the most exasperating tasks of modern diplomacy: talking to Nikita Khrushchev. "He's hypnotized by the idea," said a friend. "He hopes that somehow he might bring back a great concession from Russia which will relax international tension." Last month Fanfani finally got his invitation. Hearing no nays from the Vatican, from his Western allies or from his Christian Democratic political supporters at home, last week he flew to Moscow...
...Khrushchev met Fanfani and Italy's wispy Foreign Minister Antonio Segni with proper ceremony, and there were the usual three days of talks and toasts, lunches and dinners. Khrushchev, his sights set on this week's Big Four foreign ministers' meeting in Paris, mixed pointed threats with pointed jokes about Berlin. He insisted that the West must make concessions on Berlin, and renewed his expressed determination to sign a peace treaty with East Germany...
Economics Professor Fanfani answered with classroom precision: "It would be dangerous to believe that the solution of present difficulties can come from unilateral action. The [Western] will to negotiate must not be mistaken for weakness." At some point amidst the amiability and the inability to reach every agreement, Khrushchev broke out in one of his flights of rocket rhetoric. "Technicians make me laugh," he said, "when they argue over the question of whether five or maybe six rockets armed with thermonuclear warheads might be needed to demolish Great Britain. We have at least twelve already pointed at that target...
...heat increased, the hated East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht was nowhere to be seen. After he failed to appear at an East Berlin reception for Ghana's junketing Kwame Nkrumah, reports circulated that Ulbricht had flown to Moscow for fresh orders and to discuss with Khrushchev new therapy for "the bone in my throat" that is Berlin. At week's end an East German spokesman confirmed that Ulbricht was in Moscow...