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...shuffle of letters to Western chiefs of government and cocktail-party comments to Western diplomats, the Kremlin has been working hard to spread the notion that a parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before...
Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...
...Intrinsic Need. The occasion for the President's diplomatic move was a letter from the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, received just before the NATO meeting last month, renewing Communist propaganda demands for a parley at the summit. "I am ready," wrote Dwight Eisenhower this week, "to meet with the Soviet leaders. [But] these complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by foreign ministers." This is necessary, the President emphasized, to ensure that a summit parley might, "in fact, hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world...
Hard Man, Hard Decisions. The current surge of anti-Dulles feeling comes principally because many of the free world's politicians and pundits are trying to sidestep the hard decisions of defense by agitating for a new parley at the summit with the Kremlin. Dulles is known for his unchanging distrust of Communist promises. "Dulles," said England's liberal Manchester Guardian, "is creating for himself something of the reputation of a professional anti-Soviet, someone to whom every action by the Soviet government appears suspect or worse by reason of its origin rather than by its nature. That...
...Kremlin Parley Examined...