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Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...
There was no shortage of problems. In Moscow, dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared, "France must sign." fully aware that De Gaulle has no intention of joining a test ban. Another question was how to ring in Red China, which is expected to explode an A-bomb by year's end. Since Peking had not yet done so, Gromyko said, the problem was "artificial." Anxious to keep the talks going. U.S. officials grasped at straws -and hopeful phrases. "I don't think this closes the door," said one. "It's just atmospheric noise...
...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 crisis unilaterally after...
...Gromyko: Now, Mr. Secretary, the situation is that there are two Germanys and there are two Berlins. Those are facts, and they will not change...
...Gromyko's attitude was not new, and suggested stalemate rather than crisis. Barring the existence of some unknown intelligence reports or private revelation, all the Washington warnings-by the President, Bobby Kennedy, Rusk, Defense Secretary McNamara et al.-were not based on anything concrete. The closest thing to specific evidence was a month-old Tass statement, which suggested that Moscow was willing to be patient about signing a peace treaty with East Germany until after the U.S. elections. The danger in Berlin remains real enough at all times, but it also happens to fit in neatly with the Kennedy...