Word: khrushchevism
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...Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...
...address, French President Charles de Gaulle warned that the Russians were trying "to settle unilaterally the fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
Everybody from movie stars to dictators can use front men. In the threatened Berlin crisis, Khrushchev's front man is Walter Ulbricht, 68, the grim, goateed boss of East Germany. When Khrushchev tries reassurances, Ulbricht offsets them with threats. When Khrushchev assures the West that he has no thought of a Berlin blockade, Ulbricht growls that supplies to the U.S., British and French garrisons will be blocked and their planes shot down...
Ever since Sputnik I. the Russians have been ostentatiously flexing their missiles in an artful campaign to persuade the West that in the rocket age, warplanes are not worth a ruble-or a U.S. defense dollar. "Airplanes," sneered Nikita Khrushchev, "belong in museums." But last week at Moscow's Tushino airport, as the Soviet Air Force staged its first public flypast in three years, it was clear that Soviet aviation designers have been working overtime all the while. More than 100,000 spectators, including Khrushchev, squinted into the bright sunny sky as one new plane after another whooshed into...
Back in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev, musing on Yuri's triumph, may well have decided that Gagarin's first flight into space would be his last: Public Relations Master Yuri was obviously too hot a talent to waste in space...