Word: khrushchevism
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...this talk about Mr. Kennedy's sitting in conference with Khrushchev is all nonsense. The story of the hunter and the bear will illustrate: as a hunter raised his rifle, the bear called out, "Can't we talk this over like two sober human beings?" The hunter lowered his gun. "What's to talk over?" he asked. "Well," said the bear, "what do you want to shoot me for?" "Simple," grunted the hunter, "I want a fur coat." "All I want is a good breakfast," smiled the bear. "I am sure we can get together on this...
...Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson on his way back to Moscow bearing a letter to Khrushchev stating that Khrushchev could talk to Thompson as frankly as he might to Kennedy himself. There was no talk of summitry-just the fact that Thompson was there, wearing the presidential colors, if Khrushchev wanted to get on with his oft-proclaimed goal of easing tensions...
Well before Thompson landed in Moscow, Khrushchev roared new support for his Communist-backed rebel leader in the Congo and ruled out any compromise. U.S. intelligence duly noted that new Soviet advisers were trickling into the pro-Communist capital of Stanleyville. Soviet Ilyushins renewed their milk-run nights to help the Communist-led rebels in Laos. Moscow's Pravda suddenly revved up the ominous old demands that Western troops get out of Berlin on Soviet terms...
Proof quickly came that Stevenson's fears were well grounded. In Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced...
...into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been taken from their Stanleyville cells and slaughtered in a dawn execution early last week...