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...those splendid diplomatic parties in Moscow where Soviet leaders permit themselves a few jovial words with Western correspondents, Russia's Premier Bulganin was asked whether there might be a "parley at the summit" after the Foreign Ministers met. "Ask Eisenhower and Eden about the date," he replied. "I have made my position clear." He had already said that he "took a positive attitude" toward Big Four talks...
Pretexts to Stay. Talking to friends, Churchill has explained that he has stayed on largely in hopes of a cosmic conference, which would enable him to climax his career as a peacemaker. But Eisenhower's disinterest, and Malenkov's fall, have made such a parley increasingly unlikely. The Yalta documents are not calculated to increase U.S. desire for more of such personal diplomacy...
These same Republican Congressmen are already denouncing the Democrats with renewed violence for alleged mistakes at the famous parley. Again they have conjured up the spectre of Alger Hiss at Yalta--thanks to the State Department's thoughtful inclusion of Hiss' conference note sin the Yalta volume. These jottings reveal little more, however, than that Hiss could easily fail a college history course because of poor note-taking...
Socialists, being Socialists and stuck with their position, lamely argued that Malenkov had been forced out because the West had rejected his proffered hand; but some of the force had obviously gone out of their cries for a "parley at the summit." Cracked France's Georges Bidault: "Any conference with a man on the verge of disappearance has no urgent character." Caught short with their favorite thesis that the U.S. is rattling H-bombs while the Russians hunger for peace, India's newspapers could summon up only honest, slack-jawed surprise at what the Times of India called...
Time to Talk. In other words, Russia could not be allowed to frustrate or delay the West's building strength. Once the Paris pact is safely ratified, the West's Big Four would be ready to listen and to talk. The parley at the summit, so long urged by Churchill, may yet come off. On his recent visit to Washington, Adenauer told Dulles and Eisenhower frankly that since Germany can be unified only by agreement with Russia, as a political necessity he must seek talks once West Germany has received its sovereignty. Somewhat reluctantly, Dulles and Eisenhower pledged...