Word: khrushchevism
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...campaign swing through upstate New York, Vice President Richard Nixon last week dropped into a press conference the kind of privileged news scoop that drives the Democrats wild. At the time of Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last fall, said Nixon, the FBI picked up two Soviet agents operating in Springfield, Mass.*-more proof, said he, that the U.S. has no reason to be ashamed of the U-2 flights over Russia. Nixon's headline brought Democratic outcries that he was playing politics with confidential information, but behind it, nonetheless, was still another untold story of ceaseless...
...some questions about Kirilyuk. The ex-G.I. and his wife, nervous anyway about the increasing baldness of the Russian proposition, told their story, then joined in arranging several more meetings with Kirilyuk, which the FBI observed. A key meeting took place Sept. 18, the day that Nikita Khrushchev was appealing for universal disarmament at the United Nations...
Secretary of State Christian Herter decided against arrest and prosecution, said Nixon, because it might embarrass Guest Khrushchev. Instead, the evidence was taken quietly to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. and within days Kirilyuk and his family were on their way home. There were no arrests, no speeches, no recriminations. Total score of Soviet diplomats known to have been kicked out by the U.S. in the past ten years: 15-eight from the Soviet embassy in Washington, seven from...
...final result of Nikita Khrushchev's brutal behavior at the summit conference was to pull the Western alliance together. There were other side effects. Charles de Gaulle earned Ike's heartfelt gratitude by supporting him every step of the way and by presiding with majestic confidence over the disjointed summit sessions; thus De Gaulle achieved the "tripartite directorship" of NATO that has been one of his goals since he took power in 1958. Britain and the Continent felt drawn closer together, too; under the cold draft from the East, the bickering about the Common Market suddenly seemed petty...
Steadfast Shield. Before Khrushchev's lethal buffoonery at the summit, criticism of the U.S. was widespread. Britons grumbled at U.S. "blunders" and at the "sickening sequence of error and miscalculation" surrounding the U-2 incident. In Norway, which did not like being identified as the ultimate destination of the U2, trade unions and leftist groups argued that their country should give up its membership in NATO. Japan feared bloody demonstrations against U.S. bases...