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Virtually every chancellery in the world -including Soviet Russia's-had been thrown off stride by the vagaries of Nikita Khrushchev. Ever since the Iraqi coup, Khrushchev had rendered the nights hideous with his full-throated cries for a summit conference on the Mideast. In his evident eagerness he had even accepted the U.S. and British proposal for a summit meeting held within the framework of the U.N. Security Council. Then, early last week, in one of the most dizzying of Russia's many dizzying 180° turns, Khrushchev abruptly announced that "the Security Council...
...actuality, the composition of the Security Council had little or nothing to do with Khrushchev's climb-down (see below). But to lend a note of conviction to his complaints-and to save what diplomatic face he could-Nikita suggested a substitute for a Security Council summit: an extraordinary session of the General Assembly "to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon and British troops from Jordan...
...their tireless effort to determine how Soviet policy is made, Western diplomats are often in the position of anthropologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur from the evidence of one jawbone. But when Nikita Khrushchev performed his clumsy about-face on the summit meeting last week, the reason was plain to see. He had been driven to it by Red China's Mao Tse-tung...
...happened before, Khrushchev's cocky impetuosity had got him into trouble. In the days after the Iraqi coup, Nikita conducted his Mideast summit negotiations with the offhand decisiveness of a man who feels no need to consult anyone before he answers his mail. When Eisenhower's note proposing a U.N. summit conference arrived in Moscow, Khrushchev and some of his top aides were in conference with a group of visiting Austrians. "Will you excuse us?" said Nikita. "We have to draft a reply to Eisenhower's letter." In just 20 minutes, his acceptance note outlined, Khrushchev reappeared...
...long ago, chatting with a group of distinguished foreigners, Khrushchev confided that in the long run "we expect our relations with the Chinese will be rather like England's with the U.S." What Nikita apparently had in mind was his own peculiar interpretation of Anglo-U.S. relations-a kind of father-son tie in which the elder power is accorded the deference due to a parent. Last week, thanks to Khrushchev's miscalculations, the whole world could see that father's authority was already a little challenged...