Word: khrushchevism
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...unless, of course, President Eisenhower was prepared to apologize publicly and abjectly for the U-2 spy plane and to agree to punish the guilty. After an hour of fruitless telephoning, a tight-lipped Charles de Gaulle decided to end the farce. He wrote out the Western reply: "Mr. Khrushchev's absence was registered, and General de Gaulle took note of it. In these conditions, the discussions that had been foreseen could not take place." The summit was dead...
Mustard Lips. What about Ike's statement that the U.S. had suspended the U-2 flights and would not resume them? Khrushchev was scornful. "Such a statement may have satisfied the servitors of imperialism. The imperialists have grown accustomed to behaving like Russian merchants did of old: they painted their lackeys' lips with mustard, and the lackeys said, 'Thank you,' and bowed low." Then he flew into a rage. "To hear President Eisenhower, it would seem that the question of whether American military planes will or will not overfly the U.S.S.R. depends...
...sign a peace treaty with Communist East Germany: "We will write finis to the second World War and thereby deprive the West of the right to maintain occupation forces in West Berlin." But for all his fury, his threats had qualifications-the kind of man who gets carried away, Khrushchev also is capable of the controlled tantrum. "When we do this is our business. When we deem it necessary, we won't hesitate. We'll pull the pen from our pock et, for the drafts are all ready, and sit down and sign and then announce...
...Squeals. As he went on, some of the throng of newsmen booed him. Khrushchev shouted: "I have already been informed that Chancellor Adenauer sent here some of those bastards we didn't finish off at Stalingrad ! We hit them so hard we put them ten feet underground, right off! If you boo us and attack us again, look out! We will hit you so hard there won't be a squeal out of you." Someone cried: "Is this a press conference or a propaganda meeting?" With a triumphant wave of his fist, Khrushchev shouted back: "Propaganda!" Then...
...next morning Nikita was at Orly Airport, on the same red carpet from which Eisenhower had departed three hours before. Khrushchev convulsed a covey of Soviet aides as he warned Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, about to take off for Manhattan to bring the U-2 spy charges before the United Nations. "Be careful of those imperialists," chortled Nikita. "Be careful to cover your back. Don't expose your back to them...