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Late in the week, Rusk was host at his Waldorf-Astoria suite to British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Andrei Gromyko for a two-hour lunch which featured roast veal, champagne, with a dessert of lukewarm detente...
They discussed-in terms as bland as the meal-nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and the possibilities of stationing observers in both the Soviet Union and Western nations to guard against surprise attacks. Though nothing concrete came out of the lunch, Gromyko did invite Rusk to dinner at the Russian mission-another urgent date on Rusk's crowded U.N. schedule...
...This treaty has been called a small step forward in the direction of world peace," said Russell. "I do not believe that reliance upon the signature of Gromyko or Khrushchev on a treaty which disadvantages this country in weaponry development is consistent with either world peace or the maintenance of our liberties...
...United Nations General Assembly began its 18th session last week. To most of the delegates, it was more than a warm, late-summer breeze off Manhattan's East River. It was a wind of hope -however mild. Even the Soviet Union's dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko remarked it. Last year his opening speech took the form of a tirade against U.S. policy toward Cuba, but now Gromyko was all coexistence and détente-"the good wind whose breath is today felt by the nations...
When it came to proposals, all the Soviet delegate had to offer this time was the old idea of a summit conference on disarmament. This was moderate enough to bring applause from U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Gromyko reciprocated with deadpan applause for John Kennedy's address the next day. But to most of the delegates it seemed an auspicious beginning...