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...fledgling President of the U.S. was readying himself to fly off this week for conferences with 1) France's President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, 2) Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, and 3) Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London. Within a week after his leavetaking, President John Kennedy plans to be back home-pretty quick work...
Indeed the President's first overseas quest for new understandings in the old cold war seemed to have growed like Topsy. First, it was to be a visit with De Gaulle. Then Khrushchev was added, and then Macmillan. Even as President Kennedy was packing his brief case, his trip was still arousing questions. Had he blunted the meaning of each of his three major confrontations by more or less tossing them together, rather than taking on De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Macmillan in reasonably separate order? Was it wise for him to meet with Khrushchev when recent events-some...
...expectations. Hugh Gaitskell, the first important Briton to meet with Kennedy after his election, virtually granted him honorary membership in Britain's Labor Party and returned to London predicting marvelous new things from the new broom in Washington. Visiting the White House in his turn, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan swiftly lost whatever misgivings he had had at parting from Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower and was reportedly convinced that Kennedy "possessed skills in abundance.'' France's lordly Charles de Gaulle hailed Kennedy as his "dear partner...
...Cuban disaster sent a chill through the chancelleries of Europe. A British official close to Macmillan observed that the fiasco in the Bay of Pigs "will incline us to take a second look at any proposal. One is inclined to wonder." In France, says a U.S. observer, the impact of Cuba was "catastrophic." Possibly because of their own impulsiveness, the French dread it in others. Paris gloomily noted Kennedy's original pledge to stay at home, to rely on normal diplomatic channels, and to enter on summit diplomacy only after careful preparation. They now fear that Kennedy...
...Nixon did so-but with a politically edged suggestion that Kennedy could prove he was strong even though losing his battles). Kennedy also cleared the Vienna meeting with Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's De Gaulle. Last week, just before President Kennedy flew off to Canada for a state visit, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov appeared at the White House with a letter reaffirming Khrushchev's interest in a meeting. Kennedy gave his consent...