Word: khrushchevism
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...your piece on ABC Reporter Lisa Howard [July 28], you quoted her as asking Khrushchev: "What is your definition of freedom?" I regret that you did not use the entire question. To keep the record straight, what Miss Howard asked was: "All the spokesmen for the Western position say the real struggle in the world today is between freedom and Communist tyranny-stressing in your country the lack of a free press, the refusal to accept opposition parties. You say the Communist peoples are free, but there is obviously a problem of semantics here, and I ask you, sir, what...
Hardly a "naive" question when heard in its entirety, and one which Chairman Khrushchev evaded...
...Negotiable. Leaving plenty of room for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down, the President reiterated: "We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason. We have previously indicated our readiness to remove any actual irritants in West Berlin. But the freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable...
...embattled South Viet Nam with force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech, insisted that the West had exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev, who could well remember Stalingrad,* well understood Jack Kennedy's pointed reference to the beleaguered city, and he might indeed think twice about his intransigence, and suggest negotiations at which he could save face while backing down. The U.S. is eager to help him to that conclusion; last week...
...reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses to light. For if the U.S. is prepared to deal with aggression militarily - and there can be no doubt now that it is - then it will be all the more prepared to deal with it in advance by diplomacy...