Word: khrushchevism
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...Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens, who is fluent in Russian, was forwarding personal translations of the Soviets' words- which, rough as they sounded in their own interpreters' translations, were at times rougher still in the original. Stevens' skill was particularly helpful on words like ublindki-used by Khrushchev to describe the West Germans-which could mean "abortions" or "Mongolian idiots" or other terms far worse than some other translators used...
...Nikita Khrushchev has lost stature. His ranting has cost him respect around the world...
...Khrushchev's smashing of the summit and his violent abuse of the President of the U.S. were nonetheless followed by careful insistence that the Soviet Union did not want to be warlike and would postpone its demands on Berlin "for six to eight months...
...Evidence mounted that the Russians' line had hardened even before the U-2 incident when they saw that they had little prospect of having their way at the summit (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U-2 was seized upon as a useful pretext for breaking off negotiations. Khrushchev's later assurances that the Communists did not want a war crisis was obviously intended not so much to mollify the rest of the world as the Russians themselves. His internal popularity still rests on the promise of peace and a better life...
...There was widespread admiration through the free world for Dwight Eisenhower's dignified rebuff of Khrushchev's wild demands, but a concern-not confined to the U.S.-that Washington's handling of the U-2 affair had been clumsy and inept...