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...level consultations on U.S.-Russian relationships. He met lengthily in the White House with President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, State Secretary Dean Rusk, and three of his predecessors in Moscow: Averell Harriman, George Kennan and Charles Bohlen. The question of a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting came up-and the consensus was that it might be worthwhile. Thompson returned to Russia with a Kennedy letter expressing hope for a meeting, possibly in late spring, in a neutral European city. Thompson delivered the letter to Khrushchev in Novosibirsk, Siberia, on March 9 and got Khrushchev's "very favorable" response...
...Charles S. Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association, speaking at the University of Notre Dame Law School: "The urgent desire to prevent war offers a unique opportunity to develop the legal machinery that is essential for an enduring peace. There is an imperative need to find a consensus on the basis of which as many disputes as possible can be adjudicated in the World Court or other international regional courts...
...Monday meeting of the Board of Overseers, Ralph J. Bunche, U.N. Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs, told his fellow Overseers that U.N. diplomats in New York had informally discussed the English-Latin controversy. Reportedly, the consensus there supported English...
Immediately after the Revolution, in December of 1958, Senor Ray was named Minister of Public Works--"by consensus," he explains. He remained in that post until November 26, 1959, when he resigned: "It was two years the day after Batista's police went to my home." He remained in Havana, still at the University, under surveillance by the Government. "But they couldn't do anything; they had too many problems of their...
...government had not been so sure of its support. Kennedy is equating bipartisanship and achieving a united front with the formulation of foreign policy, an equation that did much to make the Eisenhower era such a blandly unroductive one. He does not see the danger in this country's consensus, its unwillingness to debate an issue like Cuba, its desire to let the Administration carry it forward, and never matter where forward...