Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-67
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Leader ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
Small Doses ◽  
Lds Church ◽  
High Ranking Official

In 1966 Ezra Taft Benson, high-ranking official of the LDS church and former U.S. secretary of agriculture, delivered a speech on the campus of LDS-owned Brigham Young University in which he summarized his encounter with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959. Benson told BYU students that Khrushchev had bragged to him, in part, “[W]e’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” This essay examines the accuracy of Benson's recital of Khrushchev’s alleged comments and concludes that Benson misstated the incident and attributed statements to Khrushchev he did not make. It also speculates why Benson misrepresented, or misremembered, the facts of the encounter.

The Making of a Success Story

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Kingdom Of Naples ◽  
High Ranking Official ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter introduces the main protagonist of the book: Carlo Calà Duke of Diano, a jurist and high-ranking official in the viceregal administration. This chapter also sets the historical context of the story of the forgery by describing the main political, economic, social, and religious characteristics of the Kingdom of Naples in the seventeenth century. More specifically, this chapter explains the social, cultural, and intellectual advantages that a noble pedigree conferred to the Neapolitan non-aristocratic elites; explores the main sources of tension between the papacy and the Neapolitan viceroy; sheds light on the power dynamics between the Roman Inquisition and the local ecclesiastical leaders; and introduces the complexities of the liturgical and devotional life of early modern Catholics.

The Blaškić trial: Politics, the Control of Information and Command Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gordy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
World War ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
High Ranking Official

In one of ICTY’s first prosecutions of a high-ranking official, Tihomir Blaškić’s 45-year sentence was heralded as an exemplar of decisive justice when it was handed down in 2000. With much of the conviction reversed and the sentence reversed on appeal three years later, the case looked less secure. Much of the conviction and appeal turned on issues of command responsibility, where the ICTY’s jurisprudence set a precedent going beyond that established by post-World War II jurisprudence. While this constituted an advance in law and a step toward demonstrating political responsibility, public perception of the trial treated it as a triumph for the accused.

Unrest will complicate Macron’s reform agenda

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Euro Area ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Area Growth ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
High Ranking Official ◽  
Ability To Drive

Significance Fort will be the eighth high-ranking official to resign since Macron took office in 2017. This will raise further doubts over the credibility of Macron’s presidency and reform agenda. Impacts As the euro-area’s second-largest economy, France threatens euro-area growth prospects. Failure to control France’s budget deficit will result in conflict with Brussels. Such economic concerns will reduce Macron’s ability to drive EU political and economic reforms.

At the edge of Soviet state control

AJS Review ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Gennady Estraikh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
State Control ◽  
Soviet Leader ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

In August 1956, Nikita Khrushchev took part in a meeting with a delegation of Canadian communists. Discussing the wave of repression against Jewish intellectuals during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Soviet leader mentioned that he had supported Stalin's decision not to give the Crimea to Jews because it would have created a springboard for attacks on the Soviet Union. Apart from being paranoid about the Soviet Jews' loyalty to the young state of Israel and its imperialist backers, Khrushchev had, as his remark revealed, another paranoia that was characteristic of the Kremlin decision-makers: distrust of the peripheries. Khrushchev and his advisors knew that their totalitarian regime was not such a monolith as it might appear in the eyes of foreign observers, especially because visitors were seldom allowed to travel to the outskirts of the Soviet empire and did not know that some areas had features of fiefdoms. The post-Soviet disintegration of the communist empire confirmed the Kremlin denizens' misgivings.

scholarly journals Clash of Emotions: White House—State Department Relations during the Kennedy Administration

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Kasper Grotle Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
First Year ◽  
Soviet Leader ◽  
White House ◽  
Berlin Crisis ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the rather poor emotional relationship between the White House and the State Department during 1961, the first year of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The article argues that both sides had expectations of the relationship that turned into disappointments and that both sides felt that their approach and work was superior to the other. During the Berlin Crisis, this clash of emotions gained political significance concerning the case of the American response to a Soviet formal diplomatic note (an aide-mémoire) following the June 1961 Vienna Summit between Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The White House and the State Department had different priorities and because of the poor emotional relationship they failed to find common ground. The end result was that the State Department won the battle by having its preferred version of the response sent to the Soviets. But the Department lost the war, because the White House used the opportunity to take control of Berlin policy at the expense of the State Department.

I. IMMUNITY OF STATE OFFICIALS FROM THE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION OF A FOREIGN STATE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sanger
Keyword(s):  
High Court ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
State Official ◽  
State Practice ◽  
High Ranking Official

AbstractIn Khurts Bat, the English High Court held that Mr Bat, a Mongolian State official charged with committing municipal crimes on German territory, was not immune from the jurisdiction of German courts and could therefore be extradited to Germany. This article examines the three theories of immunity put forward in that case: (1) special missions immunity, (2) high-ranking official immunity, and (3) State immunity. It focuses on the question of whether State officials charged with municipal crimes may plead immunity ratione materiae from the criminal jurisdiction of a foreign State by examining key examples of State practice.

scholarly journals Reinterpretación del relieve histórico emeritense de M. Agrippa a partir de un nuevo fragmento

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio M. Poveda Navarro
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
High Ranking Official

La reciente identificación de un fragmento escultórico con la representación de un toro preparado ornamentalmente para su sacrificio, que se encontraba depositado entre los fondos del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, ha permitido relacionar la pieza con el conocido relieve de M. Agrippa en acción de sacrificar, de esta forma se puede completar el relieve en su parte derecfia según se le contemple frontalmente. A partir de este nuevo dato se revisa la visión interpretativa de la obra, que encuentra atiora la verificación de que se trata de un sacrificio de los típicos destinados al culto imperial romano, donde frecuentemente aparece una alta figura del estado o de la familia del emperador, que se encarga de sacrificar una víctima animal muy simbólica y recurrente, que generalmente, como en este caso, es un toro. Además, se plantea la posibilidad de que el relieve formase parte del ara Providentiae de Augusto, altar monumental de Mérida conocido a través de su aparición en el reverso de algunas emisiones monetales de Tiberio.The recent Identification of a piece of a sculpture with the representation of an ornamentally prepared bull for its sacrifice, which was among the collection of the National Museum of Román Art has made possible to relate the piece with the famous M. Agripa's relief in a sacrificing position, in this way we can complete the relief in its right part if we look at it directiy. Taken this, the interpretative visión of the work of art is revised, thus obtaining verification that it is a typical sacrifice destined to the Román imperial cult, where very frequently we find either a high ranking official or someone belonging to the emperor's family, who is in charge of offering up the animal victim, a highiy symbolic and recurring sacrifice, which, like in the present case generally involves the ritual killing of a a bull.

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