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...reception room of the Kremlin's richly decorated Catherine Hall. He zipped by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev -but he didn't get far. Khrushchev spotted him, shouted, beckoned him back and told him to pass the wine around. Then, as Khrushchev, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home smilingly raised their glasses, a Soviet band struck up George Gershwin's 1938 hit, Love Walked...
Only a few minutes before, Rusk, Lord Home and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had signed the 800-word treaty that banned nuclear tests in space, in the atmosphere and under water. When it came time for speeches, Gromyko called it "a success of the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union, a success of all the states advocating the aversion of the danger of a new war." Lord Home orated emotionally, saying the treaty meant that "every human family can live, from now on, free from fear that their unborn children will be affected by man-made poison...
...Dean Rusk was not so carried away. The treaty was, in his opinion, "a good first step, but only a first step." It was, he said, impossible "to guarantee now what the significance of this act will be. History will eventually record how we deal with the unfinished business of peace...
Sprouts. Khrushchev had set down his champagne glass, and he scowled as Rusk spoke, but later he said at a reception that the treaty only represented "the first sprouts of international confidence that have appeared...
Promising as the pact was, there were questions about what other "sprouts" the nuclear test thaw might produce. To get an idea of what the Soviets had in mind, Dean Rusk stayed in Russia for four days after the treaty was signed, met several times with Gromyko. The Secretary of State wound up the week with a shirt-sleeve conference and a badminton game with Khrushchev (in which the roly-poly Russian easily bested the man from the New Frontier) at the Premier's vacation villa on the Black Sea. There appeared to be two areas in which Russia...