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...begin to get down now to the heart of the matter," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at his news conference last week. The U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchanges about a second parley at the summit were moving into their 13th week, and the letters, notes and messages added up to 30,250 words-22,800 Communist, 7,450 U.S.-six times the wordage of the Constitution. "And the heart of the matter is," Dulles went on, "are you going to have a meeting that is likely to accomplish something? Or is it proposed to have a meeting which would only...
...conference, Gromyko added, should handle the housekeeping details of the summit, i.e., time, place, agenda, and should be convened in April. Gromyko did not say whether the foreign ministers ought also to explore the prospects for agreement on points of substance-another U.S. condition-to find out whether a parley at the summit should be held...
...discussed and prospects of agreement thoroughly canvassed before any new impression of thaw is created. For example, the U.S., as the President told the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin in January, wants to talk about: 1) reunification of Germany by free elections-agreed to by the U.S.S.R. at the parley at the summit in July 1955 but since ignored by the Russians; 2) the right of satellite peoples to choose their own form of government; 3) a package disarmament plan linking foolproof stoppage of nuclear tests to foolproof stoppage of nuclear production; 4) outer space for peaceful purposes...
Agreement to discuss these questions of substance with a view to making concessions would be a price for the Kremlin to pay-but it is for the Kremlin to decide whether it wants a parley at the summit badly enough in fact to make a real down payment...
Whatever the cause, the President said, if the Russians really want a big-power parley at the summit, they should be willing to discuss agenda topics proposed by the U.S. But if the Russians insist on restricting agenda topics, then "we would . . . end up in the ludicrous posture of just glaring silently at each other across the table...