Word: khrushchevism
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...state visits and cultural exchanges. When Dwight Eisenhower presided in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Tower, his guests included Cabinet ministers from such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia. When tiny Togo gave a cocktail party at the Plaza Hotel, who should pop in but pudgy Nikita Khrushchev, all smiles. Both dazed and gratified, Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio offered the understatement of the week by observing that Khrushchev is a "very calm man" to whom "you can say anything at all and he will not be angry...
Fast Leap. Handsome Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, neutralism's only avowed Communist, walked in and out of conferences and intimate téte-á-tétes. His quarrel with Khrushchev, dating back to 1958, was temporarily dissolved again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza...
...delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing the applause, pudgy palms pounding high over his head as the signal, Castro got enough cheers even for his mammoth ego. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah hailed the speech as "dramatic." Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser hugged Castro and invited him to Egypt...
...Gomulka, Castro agreed to exchange ambassadors. He received visits from India's Nehru and from Bulgarian Red Boss Todor Zhivkov, but paid only one call on fellow Latin Americans, attending a Uruguayan reception. Said Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa: "Of all the men Dr. Castro met, next to Khrushchev, he felt a bond for Nasser. Nehru is weak. Not Nasser-he really...
Even the leave-taking turned into a Red rally. Learning that his Cubana Airlines Britannia had been impounded in New York by a U.S. court order,* Castro requested that Khrushchev lend him a Soviet plane. Promptly a Soviet Il-18 turboprop turned up. Beaming, Castro read newsmen another homily: "The U.S. takes away our plane and the Soviets give us a plane. The Soviets are our friends." A newsman asked if his government was Communist and Castro snorted: "You've got Communism on your mind. Everybody who is not like Chiang Kai-shek or Franco or Adenauer...