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Into Washington this week came a letter to President Eisenhower-already thoroughly trumpeted on the world's radio -from the Kremlin's Nikita Khrushchev. Its purpose: the U.S.S.R. proposed that the U.S.S.R.'s Khrushchev, the U.S.'s Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold get together at Geneva-or "any venue, including Washington"-this very week to discuss "the military invasion of the Lebanon and Jordan by the U.S.A. and Great Britain...
...U.S.S.R.," said Nikita Khrushchev, "cannot remain indifferent to what is happening in the Near and Middle East in the immediate vicinity of its frontiers . . . We know that the U.S.A. has atomic and hydrogen bombs. We know that you have an Air Force and a Navy. But you well know that the U.S.S.R. also has atom and hydrogen bombs . . . and ballistic rockets of all types, including intercontinental ones...
...four days, the tide of crisis flooded the Middle East. Then, and only then, as it receded, came Nikita Khrushchev, rattling his rockets and crying "Crisis!" , Surfboarding on the world's fears. Nikita Khrushchev, with his threats of ICBMs and his "not-a-minute-to-lose" call for a summit conference, obviously had every intention of keeping the waters roiled. But his clever cry for the summit also had the sound of a man who knew he was safe before crying his alarms...
...himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through the Mediterranean. The unexpected landings in Lebanon and Jordan so unnerved him that he flew precipitately to Moscow. According to Cairo, Nasser pleaded with Nikita Khrushchev to let well enough alone, and not to send in "volunteers." There was no need for the Russians to move in: Moscow was doing better by professing peace, crying havoc, and denouncing American "colonialist aggressors...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. At week's end Nikita Khrushchev played his trump, proposed an emergency big-name conference in Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history...