Word: khrushchevism
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...attention was focused on the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, the Administration was feeling the numbness of its approaching end, and the President was taking a long vacation in Newport, R.I.-in short, it was a good week for Nikita Khrushchev to stir up as much trouble as he could. He hurled at the U.S. a series of accusations, insults, threats and challenges that in an earlier day, when weapons were less destructive and threats more lethal, might have been enough to set off a war. In rapid succession, Khrushchev...
...Declared that a U.S. RB-47E reconnaissance plane had been shot down over Soviet territorial waters and accused the U.S. of "provoking a serious military conflict" by sending the plane on its mission. Khrushchev failed in his attempt to make the U.S. seem reckless and belligerent in the eyes of the world, but by shooting down the plane the Russians did achieve at least a temporary cessation of U.S. reconnaissance flights off Russia's Arctic coast (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Attacked the Monroe Doctrine as an anachronism that had "outlived its time." Here Khrushchev overreached himself, brought on a surge of solidarity between the U.S. and Latin America (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...edge if the nation slipped into recession before November. Likewise he would gain if the Administration ran into medium-grade foreign policy troubles, e.g., neutralization of any current ally. Nixon stands to gain from any sharp increase in tension, e.g., a new Communist thrust, a step-up of Khrushchev's screeching threats, that prompts a demand for experience in office...
...vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower got busy with a tough reply. Khrushchev's statement, said Ike, "underscores the close ties that have developed between the Soviet and Cuban governments." Then he firmly laid down an Eisenhower amendment to the Monroe Doctrine: "The U.S. will not permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere...