Word: khrushchevism
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Even opposition leaders, who had been arguing that Khrushchev needed greater understanding and sympathy, were shocked by his brutal intemperance. In Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell placed himself unequivocally behind Macmillan. In France, every party except the Communists blasted Khrushchev. West Germany's Socialists, whose whole foreign policy has been based on the argument that Germany could be reunified if only Adenauer would withdraw from NATO and forswear rearmament, gulped, choked, then manfully reversed a policy of ten years' standing. Only a policy of Western strength, admitted a party spokesman, had deterred Khrushchev from pressing his demands...
...fact was that, because of U.S. strength, Khrushchev's actions could be judged in Western Europe with distaste rather than in panic. The quieter hope of U.S. friends abroad was that the U.S. would supply leadership at least equivalent to its undoubted power...
...moment Nikita Khrushchev was in a rage, with cords standing out in his neck, his face reddened, veins throbbing in his temple, and words rasping out to the accompaniment of table-pounding thumps of his fist. The next, he was all nuzzling friendliness, apple-cheeked and soft-eyed, speaking of eternal peace with a gap-toothed smile and roguish gestures...
Next morning, while Eisenhower, De Gaulle and Macmillan met in the Elysée Palace to make a last attempt to save the summit, Khrushchev climbed into a big, black Zil convertible with Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and went bowling off into the country. Spotting a wood chopper beside the road, Nikita had the car stopped, leaped out and seized the ax from the startled peasant. After lopping off a few branches from a fallen tree, Nikita popped back into the car, perspiring. At the tiny village of Pleurs, he lifted a glass of champagne and shouted, "Vive la paix...
...other three adopted De Gaulle's suggestion to hold a now-or-never 3 o'clock summit meeting, and had to send a motorcycle cop out the Pleurs road to hand the invitation to the wandering Khrushchev. At 3 the others gathered somberly in the conference room at the Elysée Palace, which 200 years ago had been the dining salon of Madame de Pompadour. By then Khrushchev was back in Paris, but instead of sitting in the empty red plush armchair that was awaiting him, he was relaxing in a bathtub at the Soviet embassy...