Word: khrushchevism
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...well in face-to-face meetings with Soviet dictators-even when the U.S. was dealing from strength. There was no doubt that Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier foreign policies currently in a state of some disarray, was taking a chance. But Kennedy felt confident that he could look Khrushchev squarely in the eye and effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued the necessity of the exercise: the Communists are pretty cock-a-hoop these days, sure that they can toy with the nuclear...
There was another consideration beyond Kennedy's making a strong personal impression on Khrushchev. In his inaugural speech, John Kennedy had demanded national sacrifice to meet the challenges of the cold war. "Ask not what your country can do for you," he cried. "Ask what you can do for your country." Since then. President Kennedy has talked often and eloquently of sacrifice-without telling Americans just what they are supposed to do. Presumably, through his personal confrontation with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, the President can complete his assessment of just how acute he thinks Communism...
...Communists, with good reason, back the International Control Commission. Created at the 1954 conference that dismembered Indo-China, the I.C.C. is manned by Indians, Canadians and Poles -exactly the kind of neutral-West-Red directorate that Khrushchev now wants to inflict on the United Nations. Last week the I.C.C. was back in Laos 90 men strong to "verify" the ceasefire...
...very real. Here also, crops were poor. The Soviet Union, which in 1960 exported 100 million bushels of grain to Eastern Europe, is now itself short of food. The spring planting lagged 2,000,000 acres behind last year, and meat production was down 13% in spite of Khrushchev's feverish speeches and Draconic firings early in the spring. In fact, the U.S.'s 21 million farm population in 1960 grows as much food as some 500 million Chinese, and 60% more than no million Russians...
...Russians, too, seemed to have a problem of discipline. To counter widespread thievery from state farms and other state-owned operations, the government reinstated the death penalty for counterfeiting and large-scale embezzlement of state property, including falsification of production figures, which Khrushchev has complained of loudly in recent months. Another law provided heavier penalties for idleness and illegal private-enterprising...