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...takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia had it in its power to make Geneva a failure. But diplomacy is a continuous game, and there are other ways of scoring it than at the end of each inning. It took 400 seemingly fruitless meetings to end Rus sia's obduracy and achieve an independent Austria; a similar process of exploration, cross-questioning and testing of intentions would be needed if mutual agreement, in stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European security. Anyone...
Going into next week's session with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the West will operate from a 20-page "Phased Plan," the result of considering hundreds of position papers. In some respects it goes farther than what the West put forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...
Three weeks ago France, after a year of fruitless negotiation, declared that "it is not possible to create the Free Trade Area as desired by the British." Dismayed and outraged, British spokesmen accused France's protection-loving industrialists of trying to turn the Common Market into an exclusive high-tariff club. Such a step, warned the British, would split Europe into two hostile economic camps. British fears are shared by many, including West Germany's free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later, Wilson ordered General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing into Mexico on a fruitless pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa had raided Columbus, N.Mex...
Just back from the fruitless U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R. nuclear test-ban talks in Geneva, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, formally recommended to the President that the U.S. continue tests of small-yield nuclear weapons underground and of nuclear weapons in outer space, e.g., antiaircraft or future antimissile-missile warheads to defend U.S. cities. The Communists, said Gore, are "insincere." And the U.S., if it keeps up its present line at Geneva, is in danger of getting "mousetrapped...