Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev's declaration of independence for all peoples of the world should meet with our enthusiastic approval as the first step to real disarmament. Therefore, let us hurry and schedule, for October, free elections in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc., and then resume the otherwise fruitless talks...
...United Nations happens to be situated in this country, and Khrushchev has every right to head his country's delegation. Although we are a host nation, we must not feel that visiting statesmen should have our permission to attend...
...Plane "Regrets." Kennedy defended his Oregon statement of last May, when he said that the U.S. might have apologized to Khrushchev if it would have saved the summit and accused Nixon of distorting his views. He cited past incidents when, as a matter of "accepted procedure," the U.S. expressed regrets for accidental overflights in Cuba, Russia, and East Germany. A month ago, said Kennedy, Cabot Lodge "said that if there was ever a case where we did not have the law on our side, it was in the U-2 incident." Replied Nixon: Kennedy was wrong to expect that Khrushchev...
...Small. As the week began, the uncommitted scarcely realized how important they had become. Then Nikita Khrushchev strode to the podium to roar Dag Hammarskjold into submission. Hammarskjold, cried Khrushchev, had tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...reminded the hushed Assembly that if he resigned, Khrushchev would insist on replacing him with a three-headed Secretariat. This, said Hammarskjold, "would make it impossible to maintain an effective executive. By resigning, I would, therefore, at the present difficult and dangerous juncture, throw the organization to the winds. I have no right to do so because I have responsibility to all those member states for which the organization is of decisive importance-a responsibility that overrides all other considerations...