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Something New Added. Facing the first East-West summit conference since the Eisenhower-Eden-Faure-Bulganin meeting in Geneva in July 1955, the West showed a prevailing mood of optimism. It sprang in part from the human tendency of statesmen to congratulate themselves on the mere absence of crisis; in part from the West's prosperity, with its assurance that, economically, Western democracy was outperforming Communism; and in part from the fact that at present the world's great issues are dormant...
...something new had been added to summitry: the four statesmen who would meet next month were men of great prestige in their own lands, each freshly and widely traveled in the era of personal diplomacy. It was this evident new worldliness in Russia's Khrushchev that led the West to hope that he would bring to the summit a desire to avoid crises rather than to stir them...
...Western statesmen expect no dramatic agreements, but never during the cold war has the West, in moments of realism, expected any sweeping settlement of East-West conflicts. The hope underlying U.S. policy has been that if negotiation could keep resolving crises without war, internal changes within Russia would gradually transform it into a less monolithic society, ruled by a less hostile government...
...many Western statesmen see it, internal changes have given Khrushchev a stake in international tranquillity. A plunge back into cold war would require a reversal of his "less terror, more consumer goods" policy, and leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom and glimpsed an image of abundance. Accordingly, the argument runs, the forthcoming summit conference may be the beginning of a spell of peaceful negotiation rather than a mere lull between crises. Moscow seemed to echo this springtime mood of the Western world with a Pravda statement that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared...
...dialogue that ripens day by day into history ran its endless way last week. In Washington, statesmen spoke of law and human rights and national survival. In the South, plain citizens, newly articulate and determined, argued for human rights at 5 and 10? store lunch counters. The exchange of minds funneled through ballot boxes and sound trucks in New Hampshire, and men of political ambition raised voices at farms and factory gates in Wisconsin, while the question of one man's survival clanged through the cell bars of California's San Quentin prison and reawakened the Bible...