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...Nepal is wily, mustachioed K. I. Singh, who for 110 tempestuous days last year ruled as Prime Minister, and is strongly suspected of being under the thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office, stormed Singh, had convinced him that "Nepal is under imminent danger to her sovereignty and independence at the hands of British and American people in Nepal...
...week to propound a new practical approach to getting something done about disarmament. The new idea: a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. technical study on how to conduct an inspection of any suspension of nuclear tests or suspension of nuclear war production in case some agreement might be reached at a parley at the summit...
...There is a slight gain, perhaps," cracked Secretary Dulles one day last week. "The last letter from Mr. Khrushchev is approximately one-third of the length of the last letter from Bulganin." Latest exchanges of the months-old correspondence on a parley at the summit...
Dulles' statement did not drown out other talk that the U.S. and Russia would probably face each other at summit parley II in 1958. Topflight Washington correspondents speculated that the U.S. might be ready to change its position on nuclear-weapons tests, which was that the U.S. would not stop the tests unless the U.S.S.R. also stopped nuclear-weapons production. The new line: after this spring's nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll, the U.S. will know more about "clean bombs'' for limited wars, hence will have less to lose by agreeing to a stoppage of tests...
...address the Press Club since Litvinov did it in 1941, got down to the nub of his mission. "If our countries not only normalize their relations but start to live in friendship, their combined efforts will help to clear the atmosphere on our whole planet." The gimmick: a parley at the summit. "The very fact of convening such a conference will have a beneficial influence...