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Behind the U.S. position was the firm conviction that the West does not need to trade concession for concession with Bulganin at Geneva. By granting important concessions, e.g., allowing strategic trade with the Soviet Union, the West might well be strengthening the Russians and removing their need to be peaceful...
Hope, Not Expectation. As the summit was approached, the men who will meet there were clarifying their objectives (see box). Said the Soviet Union's Bulganin: "The lessening of tension should be the aim of this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...
...best to look affable, marched into the garden and greeted the hostess, Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador. Beaming at their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...
Facts & Fantasy. "That is what we agreed on, isn't it?" said Khrushchev to his colleagues. Mikoyan and Kaganovich nodded. The party boss looked around for Premier Bulganin, who had turned off in the crush of people, and missing him, remarked: "I have discussed this with Bulganin, and he agrees with me . . ." Then grabbing Walmsley by the lapels-his customary way of speaking when he is serious-Khrushchev began: "I liked the last statement of Eisenhower at his press conference-not all of it, I must tell the truth: there were right things and wrong things. In any case...
...special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...