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Complete Plan. In closed-door secrecy, the U.S.'s Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano went over proposals developed by their hard-working careermen. Britain's Lloyd said he thought that the West should offer some concession to the U.S.S.R. to lure the Kremlin into detailed talks on Germany; then, with Russian interest whetted, suggest some concessions by the Communists. Couve de Murville and Von Brentano said they thought the West should...
Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano said, "We should be realistic and we should not expect too much of the forthcoming East-West conference in Geneva." But he too found "some optimism" in the fact that the Soviet Union has agreed to a foreign ministers' conference starting...
...French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani had bustled over to Bonn a few-days earlier in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Adenauer and Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano that other NATO powers would thus be downgraded. Nor are the British keen to include France in what they regard as a cozy Anglo-American partnership, want France to earn its right to Big Threedom...
...spirit in the week of stiffened attitudes that Secretary Dulles left the White House, drove to the MATS Terminal at the Washington National Airport, flew off to Paris. There he, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano met, talked, and "reaffirmed the determination of their governments to maintain their position and their rights with respect to Berlin...
...blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...