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...sensibilities into account, and to understand that having already lost face in the Communist bloc by his missile withdrawal, he cannot afford to lose more by pulling his troops out under U.S. pressure. Khrushchev promised to withdraw them in "due course." and last week President Kennedy instructed Ambassador Foy Kohler to find out. in no combative way. what the Russians regard as "due course." The Administration hopes that Khrushchev will eventually call most of his troops home on his own volition. But it is hard to see why he would, and the Administration is under mounting U.S. criticism...
...Americans listened sympathetically, but Ambassador Foy Kohler had to stick to regulations.* Out went a call to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, explaining the situation and asking that the peasants be removed. Embarrassed by the whole thing, the U.S. officials prevented foreign correspondents from photographing or speaking with the visitors...
Then, toasting the U.S. with a glass of sweet Georgian wine, he turned to U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler, standing 15 feet away. "If we don't love each other," he said affably, "then that's a question of taste. If we don't embrace, we can at least shake hands, because if we should clash, the others will not go unscathed...
...theory gained credence when, on the very day that Kennedy learned about the missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev did his best to cover up the operation by assuring U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler during a relaxed,three-hour talk that the arms going to Cuba were purely defensive. Two days later, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko showed up in the White House with the same soothing message. But all was not bland during Gromyko's 2½-hour visit. Noting that he knew Kennedy appreciated frank talk, Gromyko declared that U.S. stubbornness had "compelled" Russia to plan to settle the Berlin...
Palaver at State. Both London and Paris essentially agreed with Schroder's estimate. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had a three-hour talk with Ambassador Foy Kohler in which he delivered no warnings, and pushed no harder than before. In Washington, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at his own request, saw Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk. As usual, Gromyko was adamant; at a State Department dinner the dialogue droned on roughly like this...