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...fact was that the question of whether or not there would be a summit conference had become almost academic; at their Camp David talks (TIME, March 30), President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan had set into motion a march to the summit that could be diverted only by complete Soviet obduracy. As of last week, the basic problem was no longer one of getting to the summit. Rather, it was one of reconciling viewpoints so as to make absolutely certain that the West presents a united front once the summit is reached...
...comparative rest after arduous weeks of working as President even while pitching in harder than ever before on foreign policy during the absence of Foster Dulles. With Congress recessing and rushing out of Washington, the President scheduled a light week. He held his 155th press conference, ranged from summit talk to the possibility of using Texas cabbages to feed out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky and Pennsylvania ("I happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling at the White House to discuss proposed changes in unemployment...
...word to the cold war vocabulary: "brainwashing." Last week, appearing as a witness before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, Author (BrainWashing in Red China) Hunter again showed his preoccupation with words, made a sharp point: "We are going to be taken for a ride at the summit if we do not realize that the Communists have a special code language which we must deal with. We've got to specify which dictionary meaning we are using for a whole collection of special words like peace, free world, aggression, and the like-the Communist dictionary...
...identical, the U.S., Britain and France-the three NATO powers with conqueror's rights in Berlin-fired off carefully coordinated notes to Moscow. They proposed a Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Germany, to begin May 11 and be followed," as soon as developments warrant," by the summit conference on which Nikita Khrushchev had set his heart...
...present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince for a parvenu, he shot a derisive shaft at Khrushchev, "whom I met not so very long ago in Moscow in Stalin's entourage and who has come some distance since...