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Dulles set about drafting the week's second reply to Khrushchev, worked out the final details in an hour-long session with the President. The U.S. letter's net: 1) it was up to the Security Council to decide the meeting's "composition" and "conditions" under "established rules," and 2) the meeting should deal with the whole range of Middle East problems (i.e., including Russian and Nasserian troublemaking). "To put peace and security on a more stable basis in the Middle East," wrote Ike, "requires far more than merely a consideration of Lebanon and Jordan. These situations...
When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd sat down with Secretary Dulles in Washington to work out a reply to Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a quick day-after-tomorrow summit session on the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the Canadians were already clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British...
Pursuing his own line toward Khrushchev, De Gaulle wrote his reply in longhand, had it typed, then carefully corrected it in his own hand. He accepted the idea of a summit session in principle, but pointed out that such a conference could not "succeed except in an atmosphere of objectivity and serenity." Citing blustering passages in Khrushchev's invitation, he asked: "Why compare [the U.S.-British intervention] with the aggression once committed by Hitler against Poland? Hitler, alas, was not alone...
...which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations as Turkey, Iran and Israel should be included, as well as Khrushchev's own choices, India and the Arab states. But such a meeting "would not have any relation...
...United States has failed to prepare "for the educational Pearl Harbor toward which we are rushing," charged Eric A. Walker, president of Pennsylvania State University, at the opening public session of the Conference on Education and Science, Monday night...