Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington particularly feared a Russian success in the nations of Asia and Africa that sit out the cold war and wish that nobody had any nuclear weapons. And many an Asian raised an expected cheer at Gromyko's announcement. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 79-year-old ex-Governor General of India, called the Soviet test suspension "God's Russian miracle-let us hope this noble gesture is contagious." In Burma the New Times hailed it as "a clear moral victory over...
...Meal to Digest. Europeans, even when awarding the Russians a victory, for the most part treated the whole subject as a game to be scored. West Germany's Socialists, busy agitating against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to equip the West German army with atomic weapons, saw the Russian announcement as another defeat for the U.S.'s "unwieldy foreign policy." Some British editorialists were convinced that Russia had outsmarted the West, and that Dulles' statement that the U.S. had considered renouncing tests itself just made matters worse. "A boxer who has just received a crisp...
...even London's left-wing New Statesman spotted the Russian trap: "Very well, says Mr. Khrushchev. I have a heavy meal to digest; let us all stop eating until I am hungry again." And even as the Soviets were congratulating themselves on the effectiveness of their "noble gesture" on British public opinion, the steam was visibly going out of Britain's ban-the-H-bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar...
Khrushchev started his speech in Russian, then let a translator read on in Hungarian. It was as brutal a speech as the one in which he told Berliners last summer that they would never see their country united on any terms but Moscow's. From a platform set up at the foot of the huge Stalin statue whose destruction by rioters sparked the 1956 uprising, he announced that the democracies of the West must not think of including Eastern Europe on the summit agenda: "No, gentlemen, don't step into anyone else's garden...
...diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions, quizzed dozens of functionaries who are not normally tapped by Western newsmen, and with a rarely granted 20-day visa extension went by excursion steamer and plane to the antique fastnesses of Russian Asia...