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Said Nikita Khrushchev to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson at a special conference last week in the Kremlin: "If we all keep our heads and do nothing provocative, we can find a way out of our problems in Laos." For 90 minutes Khrushchev and Thompson went over the Soviets' long-delayed reply to the Anglo-U.S. offer of negotiated peace in the faraway Southeast Asia state that is sundered by Communist attack. The Soviets accepted the proposal, more or less, announcing their decision in a note to London, and agreed to join Britain in an "appeal for a cessation...
...Souvanna may be right. Last week British Foreign Secretary Lord Home rushed back from the SEATO meeting in Bangkok to have dinner with him in London. In Paris, Souvanna conferred with De Gaulle and awaited a call to Moscow-even as Khrushchev was grumpily wondering aloud to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson why "Souvanna doesn't go home where he can do some good," a thought that has also crossed U.S. minds...
...Absolutely Serious." Behind the veil of quiet diplomacy, the President opened a second front-trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues...
...admit that in foreign policy no rule is rigid, no solution is easy, no plan is foolproof, and no worthwhile policy is entirely devoid of risk. With the last point especially in mind, President Kennedy last week sent Nikita Khrushchev a straight-from-the-shoulder message through Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson Jr. The U.S.. said the President, views Laos as a test case of Soviet intentions (see FOREIGN NEWS), is willing to work toward a genuine settlement, or just as willing to throw its power into Southeast Asia to safeguard its vital interests...
Among the many issues that divide East and West. Laos is one of the most combustible. With this in mind. President John F. Kennedy sent Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson back to Moscow last month with a cold-eyed bargain to offer Nikita Khrushchev...