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...President accused Khrushchev of coming all the way from Moscow to Paris to deliver an "ultimatum" and to "sabotage" the summit meeting, yet offered to meet with him in a private two-way conversation to try to save the summit. But Eisenhower assured Khrushchev that U.S. intelligence overflights had been sus pended "and are not to be resumed." Then the President disclosed that he in tends to go to the United Nations with a new plan for aerial inspection of all countries to guard against surprise attack - a plan similar to his "open-skies" proposal made to the 1955 summit...
...Last Slap. Next came an almost incredible ultimatum. The U.S. Government, said Nikita, "must, firstly, condemn the inadmissible provocative actions of the U.S. Air Force with regard to the Soviet Union, and secondly, refrain from continuing such actions and such a policy against the U.S.S.R. in the future. It goes without saying that in this case the U.S. Government cannot fail to call to strict account those who are directly guilty of the deliberate violation by American aircraft of the borders of the U.S.S.R. Until this is done, the Soviet government sees no possibility for productive negotiations with...
...Unpleasant Facts. Nikita finally subsided. Ike listened with no visible sign of anger. When his turn came to speak, he rejected the Soviet ultimatum, but came surprisingly close to apologizing for the U-2 incident. Khrushchev, he said, "alleges that the U.S. has, through official statements, threatened continued overflights . . . The U.S. has made no such threat. Neither I nor my Government has intended any ... In point of fact, these flights were suspended after the recent incident and are not to be resumed. Accordingly, this cannot be the issue...
When he came to Nikita's conduct at the meeting, Ike was stern. Said he: "Mr. Khrushchev was left in no doubt by me that his ultimatum would never be acceptable to the U.S. Mr. Khrushchev brushed aside all arguments of reason . . . The only conclusion that can be drawn from his behavior this morning was that he came all the way from Moscow to Paris with the sole intention of sabotaging this meeting, on which so much of the hopes of the world have rested...
Eighteen months ago there were signs that the volcano was about to erupt.Russia's Nikita Khrushchev abruptly issued an ultimatum demanding that Western troops be evacuated from Berlin and that the city's links with West Germany be severed. But despite Khrushchev's threats, 1959 represented the best business year ever, and industrial production in the first quarter of 1960 is an impressive 14% above last year. The West Berlin government pressed ahead with supplementary stockpiling until now the city can subsist normally for six months without outside supplies.Berliners know that no limited cutoff of traffic...