Word: nikita
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...from the headlines, horseback punditry and radio-television commentary, the U.S. man in the street might well have believed that the U.S. suffered a stunning cold war defeat last week. The U.S., said the quidnuncs, had alienated "world opinion" by sending its troops into Lebanon. And Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had "scored a great propaganda victory" by offering to come to New York for a summit conference at the United Nations...
...that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...eyes that strain eagerly and hopefully for any sign of good will in Nikita Khrushchev, his letter seemed, as one British official put it, "almost ingratiating." But cooler-eyed scrutiny at the State Department found two pitfalls: 1) Khrushchev was trying to dictate the arrangements for what was supposed to be a U.N. meeting, and 2) he repeated his accusations of "expansionism and aggression" against the U.S. and Britain, implying that this was to be the subject for discussion...
When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd sat down with Secretary Dulles in Washington to work out a reply to Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a quick day-after-tomorrow summit session on the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the Canadians were already clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British...
...mixture of rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman's caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined for Gamal Abdel Nasser one fact: the U.S. arrival in the Middle East was a big new event that outweighs Moscow's words...