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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 13, 1960
Khrushchev Heads Home UN Reception Frosty Parties Sure But Soviets Confident K. Swung Votes
By Henry Shapiro
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI)—Premier Nikita S. Khruschev is not only an irrepressible extrovert but by his own oft-repeated admission an "incorrigible optimist."
In spite of his cool and hostile reception, the largely negative impact on the American people of his public appearances and the voting record of the 15th U.N. General Assembly he leaves New York confident that:
- Another global conference on disarmament will be held after the inauguration of the next President of the United States.
- A summit conference of the major powers will be called in the spring to consider a peace treaty with Germany.
KHRUSHCHEV AND HIS ENTOURAGE also appeared to be convinced that sooner or later:
- A disarmament agreement will be concluded.
- The U.N. charter will be revised to deprive the Western powers of control of the Security Council and the secretariat of the U.N.
- Communist China will take a seat in the U.N., although as one Soviet official told the UPI, "The time will come when the West will beg China, without whom peace and disarmament are impossible, to join the U.N. but it may be too late then."
The American "majority" will become a "minority," he told the U.N. Correspondents Association.
"WE ARE IN NO HURRY," he said repeatedly, "and time is on our side." And he has often employed the simile of the farmer who plants his seed today in expectation of a speculative harvest.
Khrushchev has indeed planted the seed of destruction of the U.N., as now constituted.
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold will not respond to Khrushchev's appeal to his "chivalry" to resign. But as Hammarskjold himself once stated, he cannot function properly without the confidence of a major power.
Khrushchev appears to have gained the support of a few of the Afro-Asian members for his requested reorganization of the secretariat. He is ardently wooing other new countries and eventually may win some supporters. In the meantime, he may be expected to boycott Hammarskjold and hamstring effective U.N. action in the fluid and potentially dangerous African situation.
In his final week in New York, Khrushchev displayed his "calculated rages."
HE ALTERNATED THEM with tactics of "sweetness and reasonableness" in informal dialogue with newsmen, an appearance before the U.N. Correspondents Association and on the "open end" television program.
He dismissed the unscheduled Radio Free Europe commercials smuggled into his television interview as "pin-pricks to an elephant," and did not stalk out of the studio as might have been expected.
The atheist former coal miner can quote scripture for his own purposes, and is fond of quoting the first champion of general and complete disarmament, the Prophet Isaiah.
The verse "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and turn their spears into pruning hooks and nations shall learn of no more war," has acquired common usage in Khrushchev's speech-making.
And his phrase, "Accept our disarmament program and we shall accept all your controls," thundered at Harold Macmillan from the floor of the Assembly, while skeptically received by the West, may have a strong appeal in other parts of the world.
By Raymond Lahr
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev returns to the Kremlin with each of the U.S. political parties convinced he helped swing votes to its presidential candidate. But the Republicans will be more sorry than the Democrats to see him go.
Although neither party can show that Khrushchev's New York visit had any measurable effect on the political campaign, Republican campaign managers long have felt that they stood to gain from public concern about foreign policy.
VICE PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon was nominated for President by the GOP as the man best qualified to stand up to Khrushchev in the cold war.
To reinforce this campaign gambit, the man chosen for the Vice Presidential nomination was Henry Cabot Lodge, who had been standing up to the Russians for seven years as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
So while Khrushchev sometimes pushed the Presidential campaign off page one, he kept public attention in this country where the GOP wanted it kept—on foreign affairs.
At the same time, Nixon and other Republicans were pointing to various U.N. events and votes as defeats for Khrushchev and victories for the Eisenhower administration
Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee, has disagreed with the GOP views of things. Beneath the headlines about U.N. votes, he and other Democrats have professed to find evidence that U.S. influence and prestige in the world is growing weaker. This argument is a major plank in the Kennedy platform, as it was before Khrushchev ever moved on stage at the United Nations.
A SIZEABLE bloc of Democratic opinion, however, feels that the Democratic outlook is brightest when voters are thinking most about pocketbook issues like jobs, farm prices and social security.
These Democrats will be glad to see Khrushchev go. His departure coincides approximately with the windup of the World Series—two developments which will leave Kennedy and Nixon more free to compete with each other for public attention.
Before Khrushchev's arrival, there was nervousness in both political parties, lest some episode or remark develop into a domestic campaign issue. But the Soviet visitor helped neither candidate by endorsing his rival.
Ike Keeps Mum On Quemoy-Matsu
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — White House newsmen got nowhere today trying to find out how President Eisenhower feels about the current campaign controversy over defense of Quemoy and Matsu.
Among other questions he was asked if Eisenhower's position on the offshore Chinese islands differed from Republican Presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon.
Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty flatly refused to make any comment on the issue.
Hagerty replied that no matter how the question was put, he would not comment.
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) The presidential candidates take to the voters tonight in the third TV "Great Debate" their big and bitter fight over whose Quemoey-Matsu policy could plunge the nation into war.
Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon clash from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in a program complicated by the fact that Kennedy is in New York and Nixon in Los Angeles.
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The question-and-answer session will be staged against a backdrop of concern by military leaders that the blazing campaign controversy could damage the U.S. military position in the Far East.
THE CANDIDATES' positions on Quemoy and Matsu, outlined in their second debate last Friday and battled over ever since, basically are these:
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Kennedy feels the Nationalist istes close to the Communist-held Chinese mainland are indefensible. He wants them abandoned before any Red Chinese invasion drags this country into a war.
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At 6:30 p.m. Today
Nixon believes the islands are bastions of freedom that should be defended as a matter of principle.
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He says the Communists would use them as way stations to the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa 100 miles off the mainland.
KENNEDY charged in a New York speech last night that his GOP rival "invites war" by what he termed "trigger-happy leadership" on Quemoy-Matsu defense.
Nixon challenged Kennedy to "name one Republican president who led the country into war" in the last 50 years. "And I can name three Democratic presidents who have done so."
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