Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace, Above All. Back at his White House office, Kennedy pointed his guests to couches, settled down in his rocking chair. The talk, which lasted nearly an hour, was all about Berlin. The President warned that the U.S. could not go to a summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev unless the Soviet Union guaranteed the Allied right of access to West Berlin. Bluntly, he told his guests of his disappointment because the Belgrade conference had been harsher in judgment on the U.S. than on the Soviet Union. In answer, Sukarno said that the neutrals were interested in their own economic problems...
Kennedy has not ruled out an eventual summit meeting with Khrushchev, but not before preliminary, behind -the -scenes talks have pounded home the point that the U.S. will use arms to honor its commitments in West Berlin. On the specifics of dealing with the Russians, the Kennedy Administration has compiled fully 54 separate proposals for Berlin, covering a wide assortment of contingencies. To make sure he got a variety of ideas, Kennedy requested memoranda on Berlin from many New Frontiersmen, including U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Adviser Dean Acheson, Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Kennan, and State Under Secretary Chester Bowles...
...even Nehru could bring himself to an outright condemnation of Khrushchev's new tests. Instead, the conference blandly urged that "all countries" resume the moratorium. But Nehru did succeed in getting the delegates to approve a special message addressed to both Kennedy and Khrushchev, urging immediate summit talks between the Big Two, because of the "deterioration of the international situation and the possibility of war which jeopardizes humanity...
...kind of thing Khrushchev could hope for from the neutrals, once they got over their initial indignation, was already manifesting itself in Belgrade, where a chorus of neutralist voices urged a summit meeting between Russia and the West to negotiate their differences-with the implied notion that the West should negotiate something, anything, that would appease the terrible wrath of Nikita Khrushchev...
Hardened by such defeats, John Masters was a tough, battlewise lieutenant colonel during the final, crushing campaign against the Japanese. For six hours one day he got the chance to command the crack 19th Indian Infantry Division in combat-"the summit and culmination of my military life . . . The experience itself made me understand even more fully Lee's saying that it is fortunate war is so terrible, otherwise men would love it too much...