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...midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana. India and the U.A.R. Outside the Assembly chamber, Khrushchev tirelessly wooed such neutralists as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Ghana's President Nkrumah at a dizzying succession of cocktail parties, dinners and calculatedly casual encounters...
...Tito: "Do you have a concert?" K.: "Little groups of loudmouths come around the embassy, mostly the same ones, over and over. They pay them wages for doing it. One of our embassy employees went out and mingled with the group. Along came a man and handed him a placard and $8 to hold it. That is moral decline, degeneracy." Tito: "We have the bloodiest of the chetniks to contend with: assassins, people who fought with the Germans against us. They're all here." K.: "All the garbage washed up on these shores, wave upon wave." Then...
Lunch & Ice. They got off their hands for Marshal Tito, whose rambling speech, carefully trod the narrow Titoist line that espoused support of Khrushchev-style disarmament and policies, while reserving for himself a role of conciliator between East and West...
...Later, Tito darted across town to the Waldorf to see Ike, who had just finished lunching with delegates of all Latin American nations (not invited: Cuba, the Dominican Republic). Ike had also had a quick exchange of pleasantries with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala and Lebanon's Premier Saeb Salam. Tito and Ike broke the ice with a discussion of cattle breeding, parted on Ike's invitation to Tito to travel freely in the U.S. during his stay...
...keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans and Asians as both a white man and a Communist. Nasser, who cannot even bring the entire Arab world under his wing, flirts with the notion of African leadership-which Ghana's Nkrumah regards as his special...