Word: khrushchevism
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Moscow Flanked. The Chinese challenge is based on the contention that they hate colonialism even more than the Russians. The contention is couched in terms of an argument about "peaceful coexistence." But basically, Mao and his men charge that Khrushchev has lost his nerve; that the West's nuclear deterrent has intimidated him. Wrote China's Red Flag scornfully and pointedly: "To be afraid of war, and so to oppose all wars, even denying support to just wars, and to dream of begging peace from the imperialists will sap one's will to fight, bind...
...have been lured to Peking to discuss economic aid and cultural exchanges. Peking broadcasts 70 hours a week to Africa-twice as many as Moscow. "There are only two revolutions-ours and the Chinese," was a favorite saying in the Castro camps last year, and the Algerian rebels, when Khrushchev was too busy fraternizing with De Gaulle to grant them any favors, got quick promises of guns and money in revolutionary Peking...
...recent months, Khrushchev has been showing the symptoms of a worried man. He had committed the classic mistake (in Communist terms) of allowing somebody to get to the left of him. His wrecking of the summit and his furious rocket-rattling ever since are obviously designed to demonstrate to emergent nations and wavering comrades that nobody can be more militant than Khrushchev. He has cracked the whip among the satellites, demanded that his Communist satraps stand up and be counted. Last week the leaders of Communist North Viet Nam and later Mongolia were duly whipsawed into declaring their support...
...instant and disastrous. In Britain, Finland's best market, Finnish lumber and paper exporters ran into big trouble from Swedish and Norwegian competition, had to drop prices by as much as $5.60 a ton. Kekkonen, never very popular, was soon in bad political trouble. Last week Nikita Khrushchev decided the time had come to drop in and give him a hand...
Inviting himself to a three-day 60th-birthday celebration for Kekkonen, Khrushchev at first showed no signs that he was really trying to be ingratiating. At a presidential luncheon, which the Finns hoped would be off the record, Khrushchev told the Finns that Russia definitely intended to make it her "business" what...