Word: khrushchevs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower, Macmillan, De Gaulle and Adenauer. Then, through "presidential channels" (a category of communication with an even higher security rating than "top secret"), came word from De Gaulle to Ike that he thought summit talks should wait until next spring, and that in the meantime, he had invited Nikita Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this by the end of the year . . . That still remains my position." In other words, Ike wished that De Gaulle would change his mind, but was not going to twist...
Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan and Eisenhower. Other critics suggested that De Gaulle wants to postpone the summit until France explodes its own A-bomb-which seems to be having troubles-so that it would not be the only nation at the summit outside the nuclear club...
...Gaulle evidently is calling the turn on timing. He also apparently is going to get his way about putting off until sometime next spring a subsequent East-West summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...present instance, while Khrushchev has been trumpeting that "Russia is the greatest power," secure in his disarmament declaration, China has been playing dog in the manger, having treated Khrushchev's visit as unimportant and having refused to issue a joint communique on the occasion. The trouble in India has been explained, so far, as a cover for Tibet atrocities or as an outlet for Chinese territorial expansion needs (Nehru's view...
...Russians feel that the more people have bombs, the more serious disarmament proposals become--but this is small comfort to the other members of the "nuclear club." And it is only a matter of time before the Soviet Union runs out of concessions which would hinder Soviet expansion southward. Khrushchev has announced that Russia is the greatest power on earth--but China's actions speak louder than words...