Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers in the capitalist U.S. When Riddleberger countered that U.S. workers were in fact pretty well off, Khrushchev rumbled that Riddleberger had no connection with...
...Comet 4 jetliner landed at Moscow's Vrukovo Airport and began to disgorge a troop of Britons incongruously decked out in Russian-style fur hats, rented from London's famed provider of borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome you to our native land. This good weather puts us in a good...
...expected to find Russia as much changed from his brief 1929 visit, he said at the airport, as "England is today from the picture painted by Dickens"-an amiable dart at Russia's favorite source of knowledge about Britain). He further hoped during his visit to the Soviet Union to plumb Khrushchev's intentions by dropping a few hints as to matters on which the West might be willing to negotiate at the proposed Big Four conference, e.g., a "thinning out" of Soviet and Western troops in Germany, a joint Soviet-Western non-aggression pact for Germany...
...belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only people who do not take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East Germany, and they are not there to play skittles . . . We advise all those who are trying to rattle their sabers: If you feel nervous, take a cold shower and calm down. Otherwise there is danger to peace...
...have lately improved. Last week a West German economic study showed that 9 out of every 100 East German families now have cars, as compared with 14 per 100 in prosperous West Germany. Nonetheless, most Western observers believe that the risk of an uprising that could shake the whole Soviet bloc remains too great for Khrushchev to seriously consider relaxing the Russian hold on East Germany...