Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev: Life is a great teacher. If you come to tell me that Italian macaroni is better than Russian kvass† you don't show much eagerness to reach an agreement...
Italian newspapermen, scribbling furiously, cabled home long reports of "this mortifying episode," and Khrushchev's "crude frankness." Returning to Rome, Gronchi was roundly cheered at the airport, and praised for his demeanor by newspapers that had originally criticized his visit. It was the turn of the Italian Communist press, which had trumpeted his tour, to realize that the tour had badly misfired and angered Italian pride. Khrushchev, said Rome's conservative Il Messaggero bitterly, obviously looks upon Italy as "a country of beggars and singers...
Perhaps he does. But Khrushchev also sometimes resembles a garrulous all-night disk jockey who does not expect his every word to be remembered and held against him. When Foreign Minister Pella reproached him afterwards for his conduct, Khrushchev shrugged: "Maybe you're right. But that's how I am." Taking hold of Gronchi's hand he asked: "You weren't at all offended by what I said, were...
...treaty of "friendship, alliance and mutual security," Comrade Mao predicted that this union of 700 million people would "inevitably influence the future of all mankind." This week the tenth anniversary of that historic union was observed with determined gaiety in Peking with lectures, parades and folklore festivals. Soviet Boss Khrushchev was too busy to take part personally in these solemnities. China's No. 1 ally was, ironically enough, off in India building friendship with China's No. 1 rival for Asian leadership...
Hard Bargains. Western specialists no longer dismiss the differences between Peking and Moscow as some kind of subtle maneuver to confuse the West. But they believe that China's objections to Khrushchev's policy of coexistence with the West are more tactical than strategic...