Word: jessups
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...State Department secretary who had overheard some of the talks. Nobody was present when the President and MacArthur talked privately at breakfast on Wake, and no stenographer was present officially at the full-scale conference later attended by both staffs. But at the big conference, Ambassador Philip Jessup's secretary, pretty Vernice Anderson, had been sitting quietly in a tiny cubbyhole off the conference room, waiting to type up the communique. Fresh pineapple was laid out for everybody's refreshment at the table where she sat. The talks began, voices carried through the slatted doors. Vernice Anderson told...
...next session, U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup agreed that Gromyko's proposals "had considerably narrowed the gap." But, added Jessup, aware that Soviet verbiage usually conceals a trap, the West wanted further clarification. Growled Gromyko: "The Soviet text means what it says." He wanted a yes or no answer. When he couldn't get one, the light turned red again...
Since the Big Four Foreign Ministers' deputies were in Paris only to draft a program for a future conference of their bosses, Jessup and his British and French colleagues simply wanted to list topics of discussion, in an order that did not prejudge their importance and in language that did not anticipate any decisions. Gromyko wanted a loaded agenda. He insisted that the first item must be "demilitarization" of Germany and safeguards against "remilitarization," the implication (which he expounded endlessly) being that the West was rearming Germany to attack Russia...
Patiently, U.S. Delegate Jessup replied that West Germany had no armed forces, and that the only "remilitarization" going on in Germany was in the Eastern zone, where the Russians have been building up a German Red army. The real cause of tension in Europe was "the overwhelming armaments of the Soviet Union...
...pink marble Palais Rose, the wrangling continued. When the U.S. proposed that the agenda include a peace treaty for Austria, Gromyko agreed -provided Trieste was discussed also since, he argued, the allies had transformed Trieste into a base of aggression. Again & again, as he exhausted other arguments, Jessup tried to show Gromyko, with every conceivable shading and turn of phrase, that this kind of reasoning was not objective. Gromyko knew that. It was not his business to be objective...