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...turning point in Khrushchev's thinking apparently came in late April, when Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, in a speech to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. meeting, echoed Secretary Herter's warning that there was little prospect for significant agreements being reached at the summit, and implied that any progress at all depended on Soviet willingness to abandon its demands on West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon...
...Some people," said he grimly, "apparently hope to reduce this meeting to an ineffectual exchange of opinions and pleasant-it may be-talks, and to evade the working-out of concrete decisions . . . I should like to tell Mr. Dillon and those who may share his views that such methods are least of all suited for dealing with the Soviet Union...
...double crisis, the State Department moved rapidly. Acting Secretary Douglas Dillon wrote a letter to the Senate, pointing out the amendment's "harmful repercussions on U.S. interests in a wide area of the Middle East" and urging the Senate to scuttle it. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, damned the amendment as nothing more than a Zionist pressure group's meddling in U.S. foreign policy-a charge that was indignantly denied by New York's Kenneth Keating, a sponsor of the amendment, who protested that "our motives are pure." The Senate refused...
...Secretary James Mitchell lunched with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s President George Meany and failed to convince him that the U.S. foreign policy was more important than the grievances of his seafarers. But after Meany's able legal counsel, Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned...
...ferocious attack on the West since he demanded allied withdrawal from Berlin 18 months ago. Khrushchev made clear that the U-2 "banditry" was not the only thing that bothered him. He also cited recent speeches by such U.S. leaders as Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary of State Dillon and Vice President Nixon. All, growled Khrushchev, were "a bad sign" for the summit. What seemed to rankle most of all was Dillon's speech, which charged bluntly that East Berliners "are constrained to live under a totalitarian regime, unlawfully imposed by a foreign power," and warned that...