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Over dinner at La Fenétre, the British disarmament delegation's residence near Geneva, Foreign Secretary Lord Home tried a new way of explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...
...Same hors d'oeuvres, same entree, same brandy, same proposition. In a word, no progress," remarked an American as he emerged from another of those three-hour dinners* at Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's villa in Geneva. There seemed little point in staying on, but Secretary of State Dean Rusk delayed his departure for Washington because Gromyko had dropped hints that some new policy message on Berlin might arrive from Moscow at any moment...
Rusk need not have bothered. Gromyko, calling pudgy East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz down to Geneva from Berlin to add drama to the scene, handed the U.S. a position paper proposing that a "free city" of West Berlin (same old entree) and the access routes be supervised by an international authority. Right there with it was the old demand that the Western powers withdraw their forces from the city and accept the sovereignty of the East Germans. Rusk instantly rejected the proposal. The U.S. had made it clear to Russia, both at Geneva and before, that...
...GROMYKO: "And may I be permitted to observe, Mr. Rusk, that it is improper for the American Secretary of State to tell the Soviet Foreign Minister how to conduct his business...
RUSK: "Mr. Gromyko, I have noted of late that Mr. Khrushchev seems to be speaking with two voices. One Mr. Khrushchev is the man of peace. The other Mr. Khrushchev is the one who makes the decisions in the air corridors. From now on, I am going to listen with two ears to establish which is the real Mr. Khrushchev...