Word: khrushchevism
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...course, nobody was content to leave it at that, in a world that speaks of diplomatic illnesses and remembers Khrushchev's phony toothache during Macmillan's Russian trip. If Nikita was not really sick, no known external situation seemed to require him to postpone his French trip, and the explanation had to lie in an internal crisis, or trouble provoked by his Chinese partners. He had been gadding about so much lately that something might well require his presence in the Kremlin to help resolve...
Politely, Moscow suggested that the visit be rescheduled as soon as possible after the "seven or ten days" that it would take Nikita to shake off the virus. No less politely, De Gaulle sent along "his sincere wishes" for Khrushchev's prompt recovery...
...other possibility was that his sickness was genuine, but more than the flu. After all, the Kremlin has not yet matched the White House's reputation for providing explicit credentials, down to blood pressure charts, on its head man's illnesses. Khrushchev had just spent two weeks in the tropical heat of Indonesia, where he had shown clear signs of weariness, and then had returned to wintry Moscow. But San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, who carried on an eight-hour conversational joust with the 65-year-old Khrushchev at the Kremlin last week, came away saying...
...policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear Metropolitan France of "potential assassins" before Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Paris. And presumably they would now have to wait out Khrushchev's postponement as well...
...politics now, and added gaiety to the exile gathering by singing songs and dancing the czardas. But no brand of logic served to explain the internment of a clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades...