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...strained to see signs of hope. "The landings in Cuba cannot be called a successful military operation," said the Los Angeles Times, "but if they were responsible for putting new strength and determination into American policy, they served a most valuable function." From his Olympian vantage point, Columnist Walter Lippmann dispensed balm to a perturbed nation. Little countries such as Cuba, he assured his readers, "cannot pose a vital threat to the security of the United States, and we must not exaggerate their importance." The New York Times delivered a solemn editorial lecture: "History is not like a boxing match...
...host was in an ebullient vacation mood. Nikita Khrushchev met his guests, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lippmann, at the gate of his Black Sea villa, and for the next eight hours he filled them with food and wine, battered them with talk and badminton (Khrushchev and a lady press aide v. the Lippmanns). By then, the 71-year-old columnist was bushed: "We insisted on leaving in order to go to bed." He flew off to record his second private audience in three years with the Soviet Premier.* Between the wine and badminton, Lippmann's ear had caught enough...
More Like Metternich. From there the talk turned to nuclear tests and inspection and Lippmann caught an odd twist in the Red line: the U.S.S.R., Khrushchev insisted, has never conducted underground nuclear tests and never will. "We do not see any value in small, tactical atomic weapons. If it comes to war, we shall use only the biggest weapons." Khrushchev doubted-as he has doubted all along-that Russia can come to terms with the U.S. on nuclear inspection, citing, among other reasons, his objection to a "neutral" (i.e., nonCommunist) administrator I here are no neutral men," said Khrushchev...
...Cuba, Laos and Iran, Lippmann was given a lesson in Leninist doctrine: "For Khrushchev these three are merely examples of what he regards as a worldwide and historic revolutionary movement which is surely destined to bring the old colonial countries into the Communist orbit" Lippmann got the impression that to Khrushchev "it is normal for a great power to undermine an unfriendly government within its own sphere of interest " deduced from this that "Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson...
Kennedy Will Fail. From the tone of his talk, Lippmann's garrulous host seemed ready to dismiss the small countries as inconsequential pawns in the power struggle. Khrushchev was more concerned with Red China ("I felt that he thought China as a problem of the future") Germany and the U.S. While exhibiting no animus" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev was convinced that Kennedy would fail in his efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. economy. Why? Because, said Khrushchev, "Rockefeller" and "Du Pont" won't let him. Confided Columnist Lippmann in a wry aside to his readers...