Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pack the Meeting. What the "four heads" might agree on was the subject of lively fears, but not much optimism. President Eisenhower, after a first reading of the latest Soviet note, hazarded that there might be some "lessening of the rigidity" of the Kremlin's line...
Khrushchev no longer dismissed a preliminary Foreign Ministers' conference as "a waste of time," but he specified that only two topics could be considered: Berlin, and a peace treaty with the two Germanys. He also insisted that to give the Soviet Union "parity," the Czechs and the Poles should be invited...
...change of manner to Macmillan's unruffled stand. The British have always insisted that they are good at this kind of talking, and Macmillan, fighting flu internally and Nikita's slings from without, went through his ordeal with unflagging style. In private he firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides...
...most telling talking Harold Macmillan did in his ten days in Russia may have been the eloquent little speech he delivered in Moscow, at Soviet invitation, to a TV audience estimated at 10,000,000. First suavely complimenting their country on having become the world's "second industrial power in total industrial production," Macmillan delivered the jolting information that "we in Britain still produce twice as much as you per head." Listing some recent achievements of "our little island" (radar, jet engines, penicillin, the first telecasts), he told his listeners in words artfully designed to contrast their lot that...
...ground between Eastern Communists and Western businessmen. Rolling into a Town Hall luncheon with his familiar spraddle-footed gait, Khrushchev settled down at a table with three British M.P.s. "I didn't come here to talk politics," he began with a grin. "I represent business circles of the Soviet Union." That raised a laugh that brought reporters running. Thereupon, Laborite M.P. Ian Mikardo asked what might come of the proposed Foreign Ministers' meeting. "We have a saying," answered Khrushchev: "Don't count your chickens until autumn." The May 27 deadline on Berlin, he said expansively...