Word: khrushchevism
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...Civil Defense Commissioner who hires a team of interior decorators to plan comfortable, airy rooms for the inevitable underground New York City presents, in the long run, a far more serious threat than those men who spend their time haranguing in front of the Overseas Press Club because Nikita Khrushchev was invited to speak there...
...recent and futile effort of five leading neutrals--India, Indonesia, Ghana, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia--to force a meeting between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev has led to suggestions that the neutralists may form a bloc strong enough to wrangle with the 25-nation Western block and the 10-nation Communist bloc. However, University professors considered this unlikely because of the diverse interests of the large group of neutrals...
...office is really his; he has been creating it every day. Although the Secretary-General has a constitutional right under the UN Charter to send troops to the Congo, for example, a lesser man than Hammarskjold would have hesitated. And on Oct. 3, when Premier Khrushchev demanded that he resign and proposed the plan to neutralize his office, Hammarskjold characteristically refused--and won a standing ovation from the General Assembly. Equally important, Prime Minister Nehru's speech was symbolic of a growing respect the African and Asian nations entertain for the Secretary-General...
...exists as much for the small and the new states as for the great and the old. He believes passionately that it is the UN's role to protect these states and maintain them in the teeth of the cold war. He will not quit, will not allow Khrushchev to hamstring the world body because he knows that the UN--his UN--requires an executive powerful enough to resist pressures from any bloc...
...Chen case would be a disgrace at any time, but for Chiang's American patrons it is particularly disturbing with Premier Khrushchev making loud noises at the UN about a seat for Communist China. Mao has been sufficiently bellicose in the recent past to scare away his usual support from India and other Asian neutrals. Chiang's antics, however, show once again that his friendship (like that of other dictators) is of dubious value for the United States. His dependence on American aid is such that the State Department need not keep quiet while civil liberties die. The lesson...