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...ready to head home before too long. At the same time, U.S. and British delegations were due to arrive. The Russians were jamming Radio Peking but let the Voice of America come in loud and clear. Faced with the open Chinese challenge to Soviet leadership of world Communism, Nikita Khrushchev may want to ease tensions with the West, both to bulwark his position at home and to demonstrate the genuineness of his much-heralded coexistence policy abroad. But whether Khrushchev wants it badly enough to make some really meaningful concessions is still another question...
Absolute Equality. Throughout the on-and-off meetings, the ideological fire continued above the heads of the delegates. The Kremlin splashed a policy statement on the front page of Pravda that ominously warned Peking of the "dangerous consequences" of its policy. As for Nikita Khrushchev, he called out the brass bands, honor guard and television cameras to welcome Hungary's Janos Kadar, who repaid the flattery by once again backing Moscow's line of peaceful coexistence...
...other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...
...time Nikita showed up in Peking in 1959, fresh from his tour of the U.S. and the meeting with Ike at Camp David, he was barely on speaking terms with his hosts. The airport was decorated with huge posters of Stalin; on the way to town, Khrushchev and Mao began an argument that lasted for the next four days. When the Soviet ruler left, not even the niceties of a formal communique were observed...
...only realistic in the nuclear age. But all over the West there is a creeping notion that Khrushchev's kind of Communism can be lived with-that only Peking's is really bad-and this has taken much steam out of the anti-Communist position. Nikita's "reasonable" approach has helped the Italian Reds gain strength, has revived dreams of a new popular front among once solidly anti-Communist French Socialists, has even prompted Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak to say that the removal of U.S. nuclear stockpiles from Western Europe might not be such...