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...visitors were conscious of overworking their welcome, however, it did not show in their jaunty display of confidence. Though Bulganin had said on arrival in India that he was certain East-West differences could be settled, by last week's end Khrushchev was singing a different tune. Perhaps the time is not "ripe" for the settlement of some of the issues discussed at Geneva, he told the Indian-Soviet Cultural Society. "We can wait...
ITEM 3: Development of East-West contacts. Some agreement had been expected, but none materialized. "The Western powers put forward 17 proposals . . . Every one of these proposals the Soviet delegation rejected. It was willing to have some contacts which would enable it to garner technical know-how from other countries. It was willing to send and receive persons under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen...
...final days of the foreign ministers' conference, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov disposed brusquely of any illusion that the Russians might make concessions in the only area where the West had any real hope of progress. Every Western proposal for improved East-West contacts was either "inadmissible" or "interference" with Russia's internal affairs. "We will not grant freedom of propaganda calling for an atomic attack," he snapped, or for importing "all kinds of scum of society thrown out by the peoples of the countries of socialism and people's democracy...
...emergence of a coherent Arab-Asian bloc at a time when East-West hostility has been more subdued in U.N. debates has been the dominant fact of the U.N.'s tenth session. In their eagerness to declaim against colonialism and race discrimination, the Arab-Asians have not always bothered to be responsible, and Western delegates smolder at a nation like Yemen attempting to pass judgment on someone else's devotion to liberty and progress...
...EAST-WEST TRADE will increase only slightly asa result of the U.S. decision, to ease controls on exports to Russia and satellites next year. Exporters will no longer need individual licenses for each shipment, but will still be limited to nonstrategic goods, e.g., tallow, hides and tobacco. U.S. exports to Russia will remain a trickle ($6,000,000 a year v. $45 million in. Soviet imports) unless the Iron Curtain; countries decide to buy American farm food surpluses or step up purchases of farm and textile machinery...