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...Plume de Ma Tante. A French revue as funny and almost as silent as a Keystone Cops movie (recess July...
This week, with the Big Four foreign ministers' conference at Geneva in recess and acknowledged to be a diplomatic water haul (see FOREIGN NEWS), Secretary of State Christian Herter flew back to the U.S. At Washington's Military Air Transport Service Terminal, Herter got a big welcome from State Department aides, the British and French ambassadors, wives and children of his Geneva team. Said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon: "Congratulations." Herter lifted his scraggly eyebrows and looked at Dillon quizzically...
...wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last agreed upon something: a three-week recess...
...Herter and his colleagues had refused to believe that nyet means "no." Until the very last moment, their reaction to every Russian rejection of their proposals had been to fish out another minor concession or two with which to tempt Gromyko. Result was that by last week's recess, they had exhausted all the painless compromises the West had to offer, while Gromyko had barely begun to unwrap his stony-eyed alternatives...
...Today's recess finds the Geneva Foreign Ministers conference bogged down in the third week of what the French have called the "dialogue of the deaf." Both East and West have put forth their plans, and to no one's surprise, they have been rejected...