Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in mid-January, replying to Premier Bulganin's invitation to the summit, the President declared: "It would be essential that prior to such a meeting . . . complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by our foreign ministers." Last week, when a press-conference questioner asked Secretary of State Dulles whether "it is essential to hold a foreign ministers' meeting prior to a summit conference," Dulles replied: "No, it isn't essential...
Dulles pointed out that the President's letter to Bulganin did not explicitly call for a foreign ministers' "meeting." But measured against that letter's tone and spirit, Dulles' outright "No, it isn't essential" seemed a step toward the summit, a step dictated by the haunting need to avoid seeming "rigid" in the eyes of neutrals, allies and the soft-line camp at home. Since the Russians had already conceded that the U.S. insistence on advance preparations is "correct," Dulles' concession seemed to leave no barrier to ambassador-level discussions of an agenda...
...last week the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, in his third letter to President Eisenhower in two months, went more than a step too far. In a too-obvious attempt to discredit Secretary of State Dulles, Bulganin suggested bypassing a meeting of foreign ministers in the preparations for the summit because of the "biased position" of some foreign ministers. Said Bulganin: "It is hardly necessary to explain why we would like to avoid this." At once U.S. Congressmen and editorial writers began to rally around Dulles with a rare show of strength that fortified the whole U.S. position...
...statesman of the West." Montana Democrat Mike Mansfield, who needled Dulles unmercifully during last year's great debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine, now reminded the Kremlin that Dulles is "the Secretary of State of the United States of America." At his weekly press conference the President, questioned on Bulganin's crack about biased foreign ministers, got a laugh when he cracked right back that the Kremlin "must have been talking about Foreign Minister Gromyko...
...White House disposed of Bulganin's latest letter with a request for "further clarification." The State Department, addressing itself to the much-discussed let's-neutralize-Central-Europe proposals of Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-since endorsed by the Kremlin as a suitable topic for the summit-warned all U.S. diplomatic missions overseas that such a plan is "extremely dangerous." Added the President at his press conference, in a definitive statement of policy on such neutralize-Europe agreements...