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...blow to loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson on his way back to Moscow bearing a letter to Khrushchev stating that Khrushchev could talk to Thompson as frankly as he might to Kennedy himself. There was no talk of summitry-just the fact that Thompson was there, wearing the presidential colors, if Khrushchev...
...inaugural music was just fading away in Washington when, across the top of the world, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson was summoned to the Kremlin office of Nikita Khrushchev. For two hours Thompson and Khrushchev talked, and within minutes after Thompson emerged into the bitter Russian winter, the diplomatic wires were humming between the capitals of the two great cold war powers...
...unwilling to make a few political gestures. These were the names swirling around Foggy Bottom last week: Definitely slated to go to the Court of St. James's is Careerist David K. E. Bruce, who came within an ace of being named Secretary of State. Well-liked Llewellyn Thompson Jr. will remain in Moscow until the next congress of the Communist Party this autumn, when Veteran Kremlinologist Chip Bohlen is likely to undertake his second tour of duty as Ambassador to Russia. "Tommy" Thompson will then move to another key post, perhaps replacing able Ambassador Walter Dowling in Bonn...
Such ingenuous diplomacy served as a fair warning that negotiating a peace in Laos would be fully as confusing as fighting a war there. But both Russia and the West seemed convinced that negotiations should get started. In his talks with U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, Khrushchev hinted that he would go along with the revival of the International Control Commission (India, Poland, Canada) in Laos, provided it was linked with a larger conference of nations to work out terms for peace. The U.S. has not agreed to a conference, but President Kennedy said last week that he wanted...
...Foot Stomper. For the West, this was a much appreciated relief. Scarcely had Khrushchev returned to Moscow last week from his Finnish jaunt (see below) when he pushed up to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson at a diplomatic reception and blustered that the Soviets had secret information that the NATO nations were planning "a new provocation in September by sending a plane over the Black Sea." Aggressively, he added: "But we are ready and the orders are to shoot it down...