Word: khrushchevs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering to let Brentano know the final results. While the Foreign Office remained ignorant, one man continued to share the Chancellor's secrets: State Secretary Hans Globke, the indispensable confidential clerk who-his enemies never let him forget-25 years ago wrote the official commentary on the Nazis' racial laws. Last...
Adenauer himself was reported to be shocked and angered to find that his ally De Gaulle had arranged Khrushchev's visit to Paris without first consulting him. Although Adenauer had discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity...
Gronchi fancies himself ideally suited to mediate between East and West. He got his chance when an Italian official brought back word that Khrushchev would be glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...
...Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the end Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov, might be acceptable in the Holy City, but not Khrushchev. Reason: many Italians fear the impact of Khrushchev on a land with the biggest Communist party outside the Iron Curtain...
Nehru was still worried by Peking's militaristic intentions, but heartened by the support India was getting around the world. In Moscow, instead of siding with his Communist partner, Nikita Khrushchev was urging both sides to embrace and make up. The remote land is not worth fighting over, said Khrushchev at a Moscow reception, though "give a general any situation and he will find strategic significance in it. I don't trust generals' appraisal of strategic significance...