Word: khrushchevism
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...winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis...
...Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, President Kennedy insisted that there was no room for compromise on the commitments that 'the U.S. has made for the defense of West Berlin. But the Soviet Premier was even more intransigent in his demands-and, just to make certain they were understood, he handed Kennedy a 2,000-word declaration of Soviet intentions. In that memorandum, Khrushchev demanded an immediate peace treaty to reunite Germany under Communist terms. That failing, as it must, he vowed to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, which by his way of thinking would then have...
Last week, appearing on Soviet television to report on Vienna, Khrushchev seemed even more deadly in his threats. "A peace settlement in Europe must be accomplished this year," he said. And after the U.S.S.R. signs its peace treaty with puppet East Germany, the East German government can cut off the supply corridors to West Berlin if it pleases. Any Western attempt to force passage to West Berlin "would mean war-and thermonuclear war at that...
...Khrushchev had set similar deadlines in the past-and he had backed down in the face of obvious Western determination. Now, Khrushchev is under pressure from his Communist allies to be tough on Berlin and is well aware of the doubts among the Western allies...
...recent visit to Canada (see THE NATION), Reston slyly suggested quite another diagnosis: "The official line in Washington is that President Kennedy hurt his back digging holes for trees in Canada, but there is another theory that he did it straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. If this theory is correct, it is not surprising, for the little comrade asked for the world with a ribbon around it, and blandly argued that Mr. Kennedy had no reasonable alternative but to accept his thesis...