Word: khrushchevism
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...month ago, Khrushchev sounded off to a U.A.R. parliamentary delegation visiting Moscow. "If our people live under Communism better than you, why should you declare yourself against Communism?" he asked, according to a transcript released by the U.A.R. just last week. "I warn you. History will teach you. Ideologies cannot be buried in prisons. Your people will ask you to step aside and demand that they handle their own affairs." Soon the Moscow press was condemning the U.A.R. as an "ingrate" and mourning the fate of a Lebanese Communist, Riadel Turk, who had supposedly been tortured to death in prison...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...Khrushchev could apply an economic squeeze at any time by shutting off aid-but this would turn Nasser even further toward the West. Nasser can justifiably claim to have invented the neutralist gambit of playing East against West and shows no signs of losing his nerve now. Last week delegates from 21 nations gathered in Cairo to plan a big neutralist get-together in September. "We are putting our case before the Asians and Africans," said one official, "so they can see that power politics is practiced by both sides. East as well as West...
Chicago's American was "profoundly thankful" that the Vienna summit conference had produced "no concrete result," and pronounced Kennedy's two encounters with Soviet Premier Khrushchev a negative success: "They were not a failure, but considering how disastrous failure could have been, that's good news enough." Said the Los Angeles Times with a grateful sigh: "If the cheers from our side are prompted more by relief than the evidence of accomplishment, there is good reason for them. The President of the United States has met with the boss of world Communism and comes away with...
Back a Better Man. Some observers ventured beyond such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full...