Word: khrushchevism
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...There are two sides to the Communist coin in this country." The Committee, he said, is not concerned with those who share the religious, political, social, and economic views of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev. "These people, crackpots though they may be, are entitled to their beliefs...
Thompson had to chase Khrushchev halfway across Russia to deliver his message, finally caught up with him at Novosibirsk. 1.750 miles east of Moscow, and settled down for a four-hour discussion. With direct implication that his words were those chosen by President Kennedy himself. Thompson made the blunt declaration that the U.S. is dead serious in its desire to make Laos neutral. When the U.S. said neutrality, added Thompson, it meant (as it has not always in the past) complete neutrality. Thompson offered specifics of what the U.S. was prepared to do. provided the Russians were prepared to reciprocate...
Thompson asked whether, in return, the Russians were willing to abandon their military backing of the Pathet Lao rebels and concur in Laotian neutrality. Furthermore, Thompson wanted to find out whether Khrushchev was prepared to underwrite Red Chinese concurrence in such a decision...
...vital to the U.S. The U.S. was prepared to tolerate true neutralism, but it would not, under any circumstances, tolerate Communist attempts to subvert, colonize or take over nations such as Laos and other countries in the area. To combat it, the U.S. would take any measures necessary. If Khrushchev, instead of damping down the dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier...
...hell-bent to achieve a totally independent position halfway between the U.S. and the Communist bloc, and would brook no argument. Late in the week, he announced that Brazil might well vote both for Red China's admission to the United Nations and the Khrushchev plan to "reorganize" the U.N. into complete impotence. As for the rumbling all this aroused among some politicians and military men, Quadros vowed, "There are only two ways to block my course: to depose me or assassinate...