Word: mideast
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Virtually every chancellery in the world -including Soviet Russia's-had been thrown off stride by the vagaries of Nikita Khrushchev. Ever since the Iraqi coup, Khrushchev had rendered the nights hideous with his full-throated cries for a summit conference on the Mideast. In his evident eagerness he had even accepted the U.S. and British proposal for a summit meeting held within the framework of the U.N. Security Council. Then, early last week, in one of the most dizzying of Russia's many dizzying 180° turns, Khrushchev abruptly announced that "the Security Council...
...happened before, Khrushchev's cocky impetuosity had got him into trouble. In the days after the Iraqi coup, Nikita conducted his Mideast summit negotiations with the offhand decisiveness of a man who feels no need to consult anyone before he answers his mail. When Eisenhower's note proposing a U.N. summit conference arrived in Moscow, Khrushchev and some of his top aides were in conference with a group of visiting Austrians. "Will you excuse us?" said Nikita. "We have to draft a reply to Eisenhower's letter." In just 20 minutes, his acceptance note outlined, Khrushchev reappeared...
With Due Deference. The Peking meeting was an undisguised personal reverse that could only strengthen the position of the men in Moscow who had regarded his Mideast summit policy as rash and unsound. The Russian censors even let pass an A.P. dispatch suggesting that Khrushchev's stature had been diminished in Moscow...
...they told Dulles that they would have to go home this time with stronger proof of U.S. solidarity. Even when Dulles said, "The nations here do not have to have any fear whatsoever that the U.S., even at great risk, would not maintain the integrity of our friends," the Mideast diplomats were unappeased. Next day, passing up the buffet lunch, Dulles drafted a few sentences and cleared them in two fast telephone calls to President Eisenhower...
...friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts for all of them), the openhanded export of learning is a wise investment. Mideast observers reckon that Nasser's schoolmasters are more effective propagandists than the screaming Cairo radio...