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...difficulties came more slowly to the President. At the outset, Kennedy naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist troublemaking while the new Administration got its house in order. In response, Communist guerrillas began gobbling even more hungrily at faraway Laos. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to the White House to sound out the new President. In the Rose Garden, Kennedy sternly warned Gromyko of the danger of pushing the U.S. too far in a situation where its prestige was at stake. Gromyko listened-and the guerrillas kept advancing in Laos. As the situation worsened, Kennedy...
Kennedy once again conferred with Gromyko in the White House to discuss East-West tensions, and this time the President made it clear that he was through with offering U.S. compromises in return for continuing Russian intransigence. Said Kennedy: "You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We don't do that in this
Macmillan suggested that Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, sound out Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to see what is on Khrushchev's mind. If Khrushchev sincerely wants to negotiate-and not just to generate propaganda-Macmillan said that the next step might be a meeting of the foreign ministers in late February or March to prepare the way for an eventual climb to the summit. President Kennedy readily agreed to the plan. A fervent believer in summitry, Macmillan would dearly like to attend a conference...
Respect Wanted. At a Moscow reception two weeks ago, Kroll found himself alongside Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who casually suggested that some interim Berlin solution might be possible. Pressed to elaborate, Gromyko outlined a three-point plan in which West Berlin's freedom and its access to the West might be guaranteed in exchange for the West's agreement to "respect" East German sovereignty. Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had gone over the same ground in their September talks in Washington and New York. But Kroll excitedly buttonholed Nikita Khrushchev on the subject...
Enthusiastically, Kroll brought up the points Gromyko had tossed out at the reception. What's more, he added, there should be more contacts between West Germany and East Germany. Above all, West Germany and the Soviet Union must come to a "grand reconciliation" to end the years of hostility...