Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irritation. But behind the Soviet smiles, irritation was rising. The British diplomats and political backroom experts who had urged Macmillan to go to Moscow had done so on the basis of a fatally naive and condescending assumption. Sublimely convinced that no diplomats in the world are as smooth as British diplomats, Macmillan's advisers seriously thought that Khrushchev might somehow be persuaded, three months before a showdown date he himself had set, to take the urgency out of a crisis Khrushchev had deliberately provoked to try the free world's nerve...
...Campaign Speech. The blowup came on the fourth day of the visit, when Macmillan's back was turned. Though feverish from a nagging cold, Macmillan dutifully allowed himself to be bundled off to the Soviet bloc's Joint Nuclear Research Center at Dubna, 95 miles south of Moscow. With Macmillan safely out of the way, Candidate Khrushchev-running unopposed for the Supreme Soviet of the Federated Russian Republic in this week's "elections"-delivered a campaign speech that shook the Western world (see above...
...Moscow had been deliberately humiliated. Konrad Adenauer had been confronted with a cold blackmailer's offer-10,000 German P.W.s would be returned only if Bonn formally recognized Moscow. And on the very evening in 1956 when France's Premier Guy Mollet signed a communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent ideas-such as a proposal for an Anglo-Soviet nonaggression treaty -that...
...quiet the Arabs, Russia's Izvestia declared that the Soviet Union would never think of alienating its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...
Almost as a side thought, Nikita Khrushchev interrupted his word war for Berlin to threaten the Shah of Iran for "insulting" the Soviet Union. The effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared...