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...also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational, peaceful resolution of the crisis...
...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...
...midweek, the U.S. State Department called in Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov and declared that the U.S. viewed the continued fighting with "deep concern." The fighting went right on. Red Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao, boasted: "Our troops and our people are in the position of a victor!" The tiniest Laotian village could read the future. At Ban Sai, barely eight miles from Vientiane, the local chief, who had been begging for U.S. aid to build a market road, last week turned down an offer of $1,000. "Go away and don't come back," he said...
Soviet Ambassador Mike Menshikov has been working overtime in his rounds of Washington parties. Over the cocktails Smiling Mike has been disarmingly and deliberately asking Senators how they feel about disarmament. State Department sleuths surmise that he is compiling his voting list with the knowledge that the U.S. Senate would have the final word on any disarmament proposal...
...wife of the French ambassador, "looked as if they have been arranged by a human hand instead of by a florist." It was a warm and friendly gathering. President Kennedy in his new club coat and striped trousers managed to talk to almost every guest except Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov. (Attorney General Bobby Kennedy did the family honors. Smiling Bobby invited Smiling Mike down to the Justice Department, "where we check up on Communist spies...