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...Soviet, British, and French ministers sat down at 5:55 p.m. in the ornate Council Room of the Palace of Nations for the first big-power parley since...
State Department press officer Lincoln White denied "as strongly as I possibly can" Moscow's accusation Sunday that the United States deliberately flouted Berlin's air corridor rules by a high altitude plane flight March 27. The Soviets said this was done to wreck prospects at the Geneva parley starting...
...three parallel notes the U.S., Britain and France last week proposed to the Kremlin that the Big Four hold a foreign ministers' conference at Geneva starting May 11, with a view to a later parley at the summit. The wording of the notes reflected the varying degrees of Western enthusiasm. The U.S. said it would be "ready" to go to the summit as soon as "developments in the foreign ministers' meeting justify." Britain said it would be "glad" to go to the summit as soon as the foreign ministers' talks "warrant." France said it would be "disposed...
...crisis policy. Military element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward: "The upshot of it is that...
Cornell, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, the only League members not attending the parley last year, have announced that representatives from their financial aid offices will attend the meeting for the first time...