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...White House conferences, with a neat agenda of items for discussion. On his typewritten list, ready to be checked off, were eight subjects, including the forthcoming Big Four foreign ministers' conference at Geneva, the Communist shipment of arms to Egypt and a letter to Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin. The President's physicians told the Secretary of State that 1) he could bring up any subject he wished to, and 2) he did not have to comply with their previously set 15-minute time limitation. Then they let him into the hospital room...
...minutes the President and the Secretary of State talked. At times Ike's cheerful voice and occasional laughter could be heard out in the corridor. When they came to the Bulganin letter, Dulles produced a proposed draft, which did little more than acknowledge that the President had received the Soviet Premier's letter discussing U.S.-Soviet exchange of military information and aerial inspection. Editing and reworking the Dulles draft, the President pointed up the whole letter and brought in a new point: "I have not forgotten your proposal having to do with stationing inspection teams at key points...
...only a small power," Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer protested to Russia's Premier Nikolai Bulganin during his recent visit to Moscow. Bulganin shook his head gravely. "No, no," he said, "you are a big power, whether you like...
Last week an official West German report to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) demonstrated in part what Bulganin meant. On the basis of present trends, West Germany expects its gross national product to be 10% higher this year than last. West German industry will produce about 15% more, exports will be up by $880 million, total foreign trade by 20%. As a result, tax yields will increase 5%, enough to allow the government to plan reductions not only in consumer taxes but also in personal income taxes...
Arguing against coexistence, Samuel Scars warned that behind "the grandmotherly cap so recently put on by Mr. Bulganin, one might see the greedy eyes and sly smile of the wolf." An enthusiastic claque clapped loudly at this, encouraging general assent from the other listeners. As Scars went on, however, the organized cheering section became more and more lonely. When he cited authority for unmasking Soviet aggression, naming David Lawrence as "a fearless American writer," Scars was forced to pause until the laughter died...