Word: khrushchevism
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...Washington, London, Paris and Bonn, Western diplomats worked painstakingly over the wording of separate but cautiously coordinated memorandums that will answer Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a German peace treaty by year's end. Weighing each word with infinite care, Washington labored long on its own answer. President Kennedy rejected the State Department's first draft; in lengthy sessions with his ranking experts-Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Berlin Task Force Chief Dean Acheson-he mulled over several more drafts, penciled in much of the language of the final version himself...
...NATO, the four memorandums will be delivered to Moscow this week. Differing only in nuance, they all tell the same story: the West is willing to negotiate on Germany as a whole-but the presence of U.S., British and French groups in West Berlin is simply not negotiable. Denying Khrushchev's claim that now is the time to sign a German peace treaty, the Western answers argue that no treaty is possible until the completion of negotiations on German reunification. To the chief Soviet threat-a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which would force Berlin-bound Allied convoys...
...bring back one division from Algeria. Others will follow." De Gaulle was determined to disentangle France quickly from Algeria. "The affair must be settled before the end of the year," he rumbled, because "after that, we must concern ourselves with Europe." He obviously had an eye on whatever crisis Khrushchev was hatching. Later in the week it was announced that a squadron of 72 jets will return to France from Algeria this month, to be followed by two armored divisions...
Manhattan now seems to appall more often than it pleases. Tourists, who gobble up goods at Macy's, profess to find the city cold and overwhelming. On the West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide...
America's grandchildren, says Khrushchev, will live under socialism. Professor William Appleman Williams of the University of Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility...