Word: summits
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...negotiate a stabilized situation in East Germany, free of what Khrushchev styles the "abnormal" presence of the armed Western enclave in Berlin. Macmillan is equally convinced that Khrushchev's domination of Soviet policy is so complete that any conclusions requiring Russian concessions will have to be made at the summit...
With a foreign ministers' conference apparently vetoed, would the U.S. be willing to go to a summit conference to talk with the Russians? Said the President: "I think it would be a very grave mistake . . . unless there was some kind of preparation so that the world could recognize the progress made...
...would be too busy. Added Khrushchev: "It is well known that when people want to shelve a problem, it is drowned in endless verbiage from which, as from a swampy marsh, there is no exit." If the West really wanted a solution, it would have to agree to a summit conference, whose subject matter would be limited by Khrushchev. And it must not be a Big Four meeting like Geneva; Czechoslovakia and Poland would have to be included to give the Communists "parity...
Whether or not there was a summit, Khrushchev plainly intended-for last week, at least-to go ahead with his plans to turn control of the access routes into West Berlin over to the East German Communists. If the West would not agree to a Russian-drafted World War II peace treaty with both East and West Germany, Khrushchev would sign a separate treaty with the East Germans-after negotiating terms during his visit to the Leipzig trade fair this week. At that point "the [postwar] agreement on the division of Berlin into two sectors and hence on its occupation...
MOSCOW, March 2--The Soviet Union agreed today to a foreign ministers' conference on West Berlin and a German peace treaty, though stressing that it would still prefer summit talks...