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Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...
...have peace. Mr. Prime Minister, there must be a sitting down at the table and a discussion in which each sees the points of the other. The world looks to you for the success of the Geneva conference, [even though] we have great respect for [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko, who looks like me but is better looking...
...Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely...
...Couve de Murville took a jaunt with President de Gaulle to Rome and Madagascar. The U.S.'s Christian Herter got in some sailing on the choppy waters of Massachusetts Bay. For Britain's Selwyn Lloyd there were long English weekends at Chequers. Even Russia's Andrei Gromyko presumably took some dour relaxation, though he also returned to Geneva with Khrushchev's humiliating words ringing in his ear: "Gromyko only says what we tell him to say. At the next Geneva meeting, he will repeat what he has already told you. If he doesn...
...told seven junketing U.S. Governors) to touring Frol Kozlov ("Is a proposal to hold negotiations an ultimatum?"), mixed menacing warnings and unyielding basic positions with genial talk about how agreement was possible. But the most significant Russian clue of all, though buried in the midst of invective, was Andrei Gromyko's hurt complaint that the Russian position had been misrepresented in Herter's TV report to the U.S. If an East German-West German committee were set up to explore German reunification, there would be no change in Berlin's status during their 18 months' talks...