Word: khrushchevism
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...approach to the summit, they moved on to Paris to watch every maneuver and countermaneuver. White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower in from Washington; London Bureau Chief Robert Manning was on hand when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived; Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens came to concentrate on Khrushchev, Bonn Bureau Chief John Mecklin to watch the German side of the story. Paris Bureau Chief Frank White not only followed the French position but also coordinated the whole operation. From their well prepared positions, they were all set to report in depth to TIME'S editors...
Sitting across the table from the President of the U.S., Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev vented a bitter attack on the U.S. and on Dwight Eisenhower. He withdrew his invitation to the President to visit Russia next month. He demanded an apology for the U-2 flight, threatened to break up the summit conference unless the U.S. would promise to punish all responsible for the flight and promise that all such overflights cease. He suggested, in the kind of face to face insult that strained even cold war diplomacy, that the summit should be adjourned until the U.S. could elect...
...President accused Khrushchev of coming all the way from Moscow to Paris to deliver an "ultimatum" and to "sabotage" the summit meeting, yet offered to meet with him in a private two-way conversation to try to save the summit. But Eisenhower assured Khrushchev that U.S. intelligence overflights had been sus pended "and are not to be resumed." Then the President disclosed that he in tends to go to the United Nations with a new plan for aerial inspection of all countries to guard against surprise attack - a plan similar to his "open-skies" proposal made to the 1955 summit...
...American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome this danger of surprise attack. In fact, the U.S. has not and does not shirk this responsibility." When Khrushchev responded with a threat to "strike" and "hit" at any nation that provided an airbase for such U.S. intelligence flights, the State Department replied that the U.S. would defend any foreign nation whose bases were so attacked...
...straining the bounds of international law (see box, next page), and promised a briefcase full of problems. But both par ties in Congress closed ranks behind it. In the Senate, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson said: "Espionage and intelligence gathering are not something that cause the cold war. Nikita Khrushchev cannot use this incident in such a way as to divide the American people and to weaken our national strength. The American people are united in a determination to preserve our freedoms, and we are not going to be shaken from that course...