Word: khrushchevism
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...amount of sugar-coating by your reporting of the U-2 incident or fast footwork by soothing politicians can gloss over the cold, hard, terrifying fact that this nation is provoking war. How many Russian planes have been shot down over the States lately? After this incident, Khrushchev smells like a rose, and America just smells...
...explosion of the summit conference last week affected the lives of a lot of people all around the world, few felt the sudden turn of events more directly than TIME Associate Editor Robert C. Christopher. Ten hours before the bulletins began to clang out of Paris about Nikita Khrushchev's torpedoing of the conference, Writer Christopher had put the finishing touches on a cover story about the summit. When the blowup came, he had to pull his story apart and put it together again to assess and analyze the new situation, all under taut deadline pressure. Thirty-six hours...
...Khrushchev marched up to the summit still talking tough about Berlin. At Gorky Park last week, he repeated his threat to sign a World War II peace treaty with East Germany, thus "abolishing" Western occupation rights in Berlin. "Some say that the Western powers will try to force their way into Berlin," he added. "I want to make it clear: our military units stationed in the German Democratic Republic will counter the force of the violators...
Wrote the Poplar Bluff, Mo. American Republic: "Uncle Bungle has done it again!" Said the Washington Post and Times Herald: "The incident has had the momentary effect of damaging the prestige of the U.S., of alarming or embarrassing the allies, and of fueling Mr. Khrushchev's propaganda machine. This country was caught with jam on its hands." Asked the Chicago Sun-Times: "Was the information to be obtained from the flight worth the possible political loss suffered by the capture and exploitation by the Reds? It is hard to put the wings of peace on the cloak...
...Wonderful News." There were, to be sure, some early exceptions to the general handwringing. The New York Daily News was predictably truculent in advising President Eisenhower about how to reply to Khrushchev's charges: "To sweet talk this rat at this time would only encourage him to further pre-summit impudence." Said Hearst's San Francisco Examiner: "The way some people are talking, you would think we had sold our world leader ship down the Volga." Said the Chicago Tribune: "In the bargaining at the sum mit, the Soviet demands and claims will be deterred only...