Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev's proposal to make West Berlin a "free city," embedded in East Germany and cut off from the West, has had another result: the Insulaner have stopped grumbling about their lot and decided that the status quo is not so bad after all. The currently favorite illustration of Khrushchev's proposals: Two men are arguing. One is standing on the edge of a cliff. Says the first: "We'll compromise. Let's both take one step backward...
Before Nikita Khrushchev made the U-2 the summit's principal topic, there were three official agenda items: 1) disarmament, 2) East-West tensions, 3) Berlin and the fate of Germany. Of these, disarmament was the only one remotely expected to produce concrete achievement...
...Great Britain) nuclear-controls conference in Geneva had come close to an agreement banning nuclear tests. Despite the obvious pitfalls for the West, an agreement would be the first break in Russia's long refusal to accept international inspection, and one inspection might lead to another. Even Khrushchev, with a wary eye on Red China, might have reason to welcome it: a nuclear test ban would provide him with an impeccable excuse for refusing to help Mao Tse-tung acquire nuclear weapons...
...Gaulle's pet summit projects were just as unenthusiastically received by his colleagues. As one of his chief ploys, De Gaulle planned to challenge Khrushchev to cooperate with the West in a joint program of economic aid to underdeveloped nations. Both the U.S. and Britain feel that this would pervert and weaken Western aid programs. And De Gaulle's dream of a ban on arms shipments to such troubled areas as Africa is frowned on by the U.S., which argues that proud new nations will insist on getting defensive armaments somewhere-and it might as well be from...
West Berlin, said Khrushchev to Hubert Humphrey, is "a bone in my throat.'' As an island of freedom and prosperity .(see box), West Berlin constitutes a damning and unsettling contrast to the drabness of life in East Germany-a fact attested to by the 2,500,000 East German refugees who have poured into West Berlin in the last decade. Khrushchev is under pressure from his East German puppets, who complain in effect: "We cannot control these people forever unless something is done to eliminate the escape hatch that Berlin provides...