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...world is going on? Millions wonder in rising alarm, then hear with horror that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, by fateful inadvertency, have ex ploded superbombs at almost exactly the same moment - one near the South Pole, one near the North Pole. The geostrophic jolt, statesmen grimly reveal, has knocked the earth 11° off its axis and, what is in finitely worse, has steeply deflected its orbit. In four months, scientists estimate, the earth will pass so close to the sun that the world will end in fire, and humanity will roast in a hell...
...Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home made Moscow's rough stuff over Berlin Topic A in their first talks with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. As reported by the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, there ensued some uncommonly blunt words among the three statesmen...
...there survived into the new pre-war period the diplomatic problems of the old pre-war period. But the assumptions of Versailles also survived, in the minds of Western statesmen (and, in a negative sense, in German minds too). And this was a tragedy; for as Germany proceeded fitfully toward recovery between 1919 and 1933, the Treaty's provisions became increasingly irrelevant. The best proof of this -- and one which Taylor discusses brilliantly -- is the reparations wrangle. If Germany were to "pay for her war," she could not recover, and a "recovery" (in the sense of achievement...
...Push. In addition to demonstrating once again Russia's "peaceful intentions" Khrushchev was obviously also attempting to soften up the West and extort some real concessions. The West's response depended in part on how Western statesmen evaluate a theory about Khrushchev that has gained wide acceptance, particularly in Britain. Its advocates make the case that Nikita Khrushchev is the most reasonable of all Russian leaders and "the West's best friend in Moscow." Therefore, they maintain, the Allies should try hard to reach an accord with...
...main reason the two had come together involved a more distant and elusive question-Europe's political unity. The goal might be still a generation or more away, but the breathtaking prospect of one big continental "nation" now was on the lips and in the hearts of statesmen throughout Europe...