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...Geneva, the delegates settled in for lots more talk about disarmament. Seasoned Arthur Dean, who will take over from Rusk next week as U.S. delegate, already was house hunting...
Doubletalk. At Geneva (see above), U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home made Moscow's rough stuff over Berlin Topic A in their first talks with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. As reported by the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, there ensued some uncommonly blunt words among the three statesmen...
...RUSK: "May I observe, Mr. Foreign Minister, that if there is a gap in your information, it could easily be rectified by one quick call to the Soviet Ministry of Defense in Moscow...
GROMYKO: "And may I be permitted to observe, Mr. Rusk, that it is improper for the American Secretary of State to tell the Soviet Foreign Minister how to conduct his business...
...RUSK: "Mr. Gromyko, I have noted of late that Mr. Khrushchev seems to be speaking with two voices. One Mr. Khrushchev is the man of peace. The other Mr. Khrushchev is the one who makes the decisions in the air corridors. From now on, I am going to listen with two ears to establish which is the real Mr. Khrushchev...