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After such menaces, was there more to say? Prime Minister Macmillan, regarding nuclear war as "suicidal folly" proclaimed it "the duty of statesmen to see if it is possible to establish some basis of confidence...
Preceded by an eager army of 100 Western reporters.* Macmillan was caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev...
Diplomats & Dickens. Watching from the sidelines, some of Britain's allies posed the same question that Russian diplomats in London had been asking for two weeks: What did Macmillan expect to accomplish by all this? Macmillan himself had described his trip as "something in the nature of a reconnaissance." He did not have the authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope...
Sabers & Skittles. Five days before Macmillan's arrival, in a speech at the Russian manufacturing town of Tula (firearms and samovars), Khrushchev had opened the battle with what the British called "a shot across Macmillan's bow." He had no intention, said Khrushchev, of budging from his ultimatum to the Western powers to get out of Berlin by May 27. "Some excessively belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only...
...Harold Macmillan's mission to Moscow became, in a sense, more useful than ever. At his first Kremlin reception last week Macmillan told the assembled Soviet bigwigs: "It is impossible to hide from ourselves the dangers of war by miscalculation or muddle. That indeed would be a calamity to us all." In his restrained British way, Macmillan was seeking to make it unmistakably plain to Khrushchev that he was playing with dynamite; if Macmillan achieves nothing else, he is determined to convince the Soviet that the West will fight before it will surrender Berlin to a Russian-dominated East...