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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 5, 1964
U.S.-Soviet Relations Same Despite Ousting
The ousting of Nikita Khrushchev should have no adverse effects on Soviet-American relations unless there is a drastic reversal in the holders of world power, according to Prof. Klaus Pringsheim.
Speaking to the KU-Y Current Issues Forum yesterday, he added that the new Soviet leadership group might make one or two gestures to reassure the American government and people that a new "tough line" towards the United States was not being considered.
PRINGSHEIM, acting assistant professor of political science, said that even though the Soviet may make these gestures, Khrushchev's departure does create problems for U.S. policymakers who now must reassess the entire Soviet scene.
"The Soviet policy was not an embodiment of Khrushchev's personal attitudes toward the U.S." Pringsheim said, "but rather a reflection of the Soviet appraisal of power realities between the two nations, and a reflection of Soviet respect for America's nuclear superiority and of the Soviet desire to avoid nuclear confrontation."
Reasons leading to Khrushchev's ousting included his vulgar behavior in public, his lack of personal dignity, his making of decisions without consulting others, his provocation of the Cuban missile affair, the handling of the Soviet economy, and his mishandling of Soviet relations with other nations of the Soviet Camp-China in particular—and Communist parties in other nations, he said.
"THE SINO-SOVIET split was not necessarily conjured up by the personal whim of Premier Khrushchev but rather a reflection of deep-seated differences of policy and national interest between the Soviet Union and Communist China," Pringsheim said.
He continued, "The removal of Soviet Premier Khrushchev therefore did not create the necessary
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The conditions which had created the split in the first place would have to be changed before true reconciliation could take place, according to Prof. Pringsheim.
conditions for a healing of the Sino-
Soviet_rift."
- "Chinese resentment over the Soviet Union's failure to provide aid to Chinese development of nuclear weapons;
PROF. PRINGSHEIM listed three conditions which would have to be corrected:
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- "Chinese disagreement with Soviet policy in the underdeveloped areas;
- "Chinese claims to thousands of square miles of Soviet territory which China claims the Soviet robbed from China in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries."
Fringsheim concluded, "Khrushchev's clownlike antics and earthy sayings will be missed by those of us who like colorful politicians and like to see a little humor on the stage of international politics."
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