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Dwarfs & Giants. At a reception for 600 given by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, at posh La Redoute, Mikoyan at first sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons...
...German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal Republic." Brentano was taken somewhat aback by this specious proposal but quickly rebutted: "We will throw away all our weapons, of every kind, if the Soviet Union would do the same. Let us work towards a regularized disarmament agreement...
...week's end another NATO foreign minister, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, arrived in Washington fresh from Rome to discuss plans for the NATO meeting. With him he brought a German-Italian proposal that NATO members commit themselves to consultation with the other allies before carrying out any major policy decision. Since this seemed to imply a veto power over any U.S. decision to retaliate instantly if attacked, Dulles turned it down, pointed out that the U.S. cannot unconditionally commit itself to advance consultation, thereby curbing presidential power to act quickly in a crisis...
Veto Power? Neither Foreign Minister Pineau nor Foreign Minister Von Brentano got half as much attention from the State Department press corps as Democrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving to take part in preparations for the Paris meetings. Dulles greeted Stevenson warmly in the fifth-floor diplomatic reception room, ushered him into his office for a 90-minute discussion, then gave him the office across the hall, normally occupied by Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt...
...hour of the NATO summit conference approached, the statesmen and diplomats of the West scurried about like ants. Danish Premier Hans Christian Hansen flew into Bonn. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano conferred in Rome before flying to Washington, hot on the heels of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was loading his briefcase for a quick trip to Paris...