Word: khrushchevism
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...Communism. In forcing Japan to cancel the President's visit, it administered a stinging slap to U.S. pride and prestige. No Red propaganda victory in years had so served to humiliate a President of the U.S. Coming in the wake of the U-2 dust-up and Nikita Khrushchev's party-line attack on Eisenhower at the summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow to the U.S. image. Allies were apprehensive because the U.S. had allowed itself to get in such a fix. Peking and Moscow were jubilant; one called the President...
Russians; our State Department has tried frowning; Mr. Nixon has tried both. As long as Mr. Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of power is shifting his way, no amount of either smiles or toughness, neither Camp David talks nor kitchen debates, can compel him to enter fruitful negotiations." What the U.S. needs, he said, is strength to prove to the Russians that negotiation is their only hope...
...confusion of the U.S.'s allies. "As the date of the American elections grows nearer," said sagacious old Konrad Adenauer last week, "a difficult time in foreign policy begins. Public opinion in the U.S. will be increasingly preoccupied with domestic affairs. It is not excluded that Khrushchev will take advantage of this period for his designs. It is now all the more necessary to pay closest attention to what Khrushchev does and says...
...22nd Amendment, restricting U.S. Presidents to two terms, tempts foreign nations to put less and less trust in a second-term President's policies. Khrushchev, in his airy dismissal of the Eisenhower Administration ("Within six or eight months, we shall again meet ... in a new, more favorable atmosphere''), had not missed the point...
Clearly Mao Tse-tung was challenging Nikita Khrushchev as the ideological leader of the Communist world. The downing of the U.S. spy plane and the Paris summit fiasco have filled Chinese newspapers with cocky cries of "I told you so" and open assertions that, whatever happens to the rest of the world, Communist China is big enough, to survive nuclear war. At a recent meeting of the Red-led World Trade Union Federation in Peking, the Chinese Communists described themselves as the champions of repressed peoples against the "satisfied" or the "have" nations, in which category they included Russia. They...