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...Llewellyn S. Thompson Jr., LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Quiet American, whose knowledge, patience, diligence and discipline have helped proud and powerful nations live peacefully together in an ever-troubled world...
Irreconcilable Aims. What might happen next is far less clear. President Johnson has named as his negotiators Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman, 76, sometimes called "The Crocodile" for the snapping speed of his mind on complex problems, and Llewellyn Thompson, 63, Ambassador to Moscow. Both are veterans of many confrontations with the Communists. What can they negotiate...
...exploit the U.S. move. This proviso has now been dropped. Instead, Johnson urged Britain and the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...
Steamy Valve. As a result, when U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson called on Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov to request Moscow's intervention, he was almost rudely brushed off. A second visit, this time with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, yielded an equally frosty response. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski reported from Warsaw that he was discussing the matter with the Polish government...
Three weeks after President Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to discuss limiting nuclear arms, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson called on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow for the first round of talks. Though Thompson and Gromyko conferred for only half an hour last week-and even then only on how the negotiations should be conducted- the importance of the session transcended the time spent...