Word: khrushchevism
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Once More the Gavel. This was the best break Khrushchev had got all week. A meeting with Dwight Eisenhower, without any Khrushchev concessions or apologies in advance, would be a Soviet diplomatic victory. Apparently encouraged, Khrushchev decided to thunder some more. He turned up at the U.N., got the floor, seizing on a Nepalese motion calling for full Assembly debate on the question of Red China's admission...
Padding up to the rostrum, Khrushchev began with a deceptively calm appeal to the neutralists. Said he: "There cannot be any disarmament without China. There cannot be any normal work of the United Nations without China." Then, as the spirit moved him, he embarked on wholesale denunciation of the West and all its works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain...
Spanish Delegate Jose Felix de Lequerica sprang shouting to his feet, treating Khrushchev to a taste of the same medicine he had administered to Macmillan. Furiously, Khrushchev babbled on, ignoring both Lequerica and the gaveling of Assembly President Boland, until at last he noticed that his microphone had been turned off and translation of his speech discontinued. To Boland's gentle reminder that it was out of order to make personal attacks on another chief of state, Khrushchev snarled: "What would happen to the U.N. if you do not admit China and if we were to go away from...
...moments more, pudgy Nikita Khrushchev ranted on. Then he stalked out of the Assembly, answering the applause of the Communist claque by applauding himself as he went. Behind him, he left the dazed Assembly to adjourn for the weekend...
More and more, Khrushchev sounded like a man who had lost his strategic bearings and was striking out indiscriminately at targets of opportunity in the vague hope that, sooner or later, he might strike a vital spot...