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Plank agreed with Sohn, pointing out that the unocmmitted nations will "do their utmost" to keep East-West conflicts out of the General Assembly in order to work on the "mammoth array of problems which they face...
...such, it was not a bad reflection of East-West relations last week. At the U.N., Russian officials raced about lobbying among delegates against convening the 82-nation U.N. Disarmament Commission next week, as the U.S. proposed. Alternately hinting boycott and begging support, the Red diplomats talked up Khrushchev's counterproposal: postponing any disarmament discussion until September, at which time, Nikita suggested, as many as possible of the 82 U.N. chiefs of state should gather at the General Assembly for the biggest summit meeting in human history...
...foresee the possible mobbing of Dwight Eisenhower himself. The miscalculation was understandable. When Ike's trip to Japan was planned five months ago, it was assumed that he would arrive in To kyo fresh from Moscow, impregnable in the mantle of a peacemaker and relaxer of East-West tensions. Another misadventure MacArthur could not reasonably have been expected to foresee was how fatally Nobusuke Kishi would play into the hands of his opponents...
Before Nikita Khrushchev made the U-2 the summit's principal topic, there were three official agenda items: 1) disarmament, 2) East-West tensions, 3) Berlin and the fate of Germany. Of these, disarmament was the only one remotely expected to produce concrete achievement...
...British-Russian test-ban conference in Geneva early last week, Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin, on instructions from Moscow, unexpectedly dropped his longtime insistence that any East-West program of research on underground test detection would have to be carried out solely with conventional explosives, agreed to include a "strictly limited number" of nuclear explosions. Viewed in the light of Tsarapkin's concession and the previous history of the test-ban negotiations, Project Vela seemed entirely peaceable...