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...summit" meeting in Moscow: Communist leaders from everywhere have been marshaled to reaffirm Soviet supremacy against China's challenge, but China's Mao Tse-tung has deprived Nikita Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith-at the summit itself. He sent his No. 2 man instead. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Winter-Garden Summit...
Esteemed Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, whose editorialists had played the election as "Tweedledum v. Tweedledee," did not even wait until all the returns were in to jump on the winning side. "Esteemed Mr. Kennedy, allow me to congratulate you," he cabled. "We hope that while you are at this post the relations between our countries would again follow the line along which they were developing in Franklin Roosevelt's time...
...Despite Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Communists no longer believe in real war, he has no scruples against a war of nerves. Last week East Germany was hard at work trying to throw a scare into West Germany by a series of calculated maneuvers and conspicuous leaks...
Sometimes Nikita Khrushchev also be comes convinced that a war of nerves can be too risky-or that the irresponsibles he has encouraged may get out of hand. Last week Khrushchev gave an interview to the left-wing Cuban newspaper Revolución, and just to make sure everyone got the point, had Tass circulate it six days later. Key passage: "The head of the Soviet Republic noted that he would like his statements regarding aid to Cuba in the case of armed aggression against that country really to be symbolic...
...Secretary-General, Hammarskjold was an obvious candidate for the 1960 Peace award. But the Nobel deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. long before the Congo emergency appeared. With Hammarskjold ruled out on this technicality (and perhaps with an eye toward avoiding controversy with Hammarskjold's vociferous detractor, Nikita Khrushchev), the committee decided to make no award...