Word: khrushchevism
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Keep Out of the Kitchen. Khrushchev seemed especially angry that President Eisenhower had said that he could stay no more than seven days at the summit and had suggested that if it lasted longer, Vice President Nixon should replace him. Evidently still smarting from his unscheduled debate with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev rumbled: "It is hard for me to shake the impression that the last thing Nixon has in mind is to reach agreement on outstanding questions, liquidate the conditions of tension, and stop the arms race." Sending him to the summit, added Khrushchev...
...Khrushchev turned truculent? Best guess was that Khrushchev had concluded that the West was not to be smiled into concessions. When he dropped the time limit on his Berlin proposals and proposed the summit talks, he may have hoped the West would prove willing to yield a point or two. But the solidarity displayed by the West as the summit approached made it evident that the West was not to be bamboozled into damaging concessions just for the sake of easing a crisis that Khrushchev had created in the first place. His soft talk was getting him nowhere, and there...
Keep Out of the Air. Khrushchev launched on his new line three weeks ago. In a bombastic speech at Baku, he warned that if he signed a separate peace treaty with East Germany, the Western allies "will naturally not be able to reach Berlin by land, water or air," and if they try to use force for the purpose, "this force will be opposed by force from the other side, based on law and right...
...Khrushchev's move was also simple tactics. In recent weeks, Western leaders had seemed to take him too much for granted. Official leaks spoke of Khrushchev's "need" to be conciliatory at the summit because of public pressure at home, or because he had staked his prestige in the Communist camp on making "peaceful coexistence" a success. By seizing on the U-2 incident, he apparently hoped to turn the tables and bring the U.S. to the conference table at what he thought would be a disadvantage...
...switch pleased the Communist critics of Khrushchev's peaceful-coexistence line. SOVIET ROCKET PROTECTS PEACE, blared the Chinese Communist publication Ta Kung Pao's enthusiastic headline last week. It also served to refute the charge that he had become "soft on democracy." Even domestically, it could serve a purpose. If Russia's Ivans were wondering why Khrushchev's vaunted prosperity was not paying off as handsomely in comfort and amenities as they had been led to believe, this was an excuse of sorts: the money was going to protect Mother Russia against wicked imperialists...