Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With only a fortnight to tour the U.S., Khrushchev would have to turn down most of the invitations that began rolling in to the Soviet embassy in Washington. Mayor Richardson Dilworth invited him to Philadelphia. In Columbus, Ohio State University alumni eagerly plotted to get Khrushchev to the football stadium for the Duke game. Officials in Marshalltown, Iowa urged him to visit their town "in the heartland of America." Invitations to make speeches poured in from an assortment of clubs, ranging from the Young Republicans in New York City to Rotary in Crossett, Ark. And inevitably, an invitation...
...direct result of the Nixon party's tour of the Soviet Union and Poland, some new assumptions are bound to be cranked into high-level U.S. policy decisions. Among the assumptions, as pieced together by TIME'S White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, who traveled with the Nixon party...
...Since no argument to the contrary is likely to get through to him, the best basis for U.S. debate is to convince him that in any war, both sides would turn out the loser. The worst thing the U.S. can do is to show signs of jitters over Soviet military threats...
...Khrushchev talks peace all the time, not only to impress the free world, but because the Soviet people, badly hurt during World War II, want nothing else so desperately and want to hear nothing else...
...Despite a generation of Communist propaganda, the Soviet people do not believe that Americans are villainous. After seeing spontaneous demonstrations for the Nixon party, an American who had known Russia in Stalin's day said: "I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming...