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...Summit. The U.S., Britain and France fired off a joint note to the Kremlin opposing the U.S.S.R.'s attempt to divide the allies in pre-summit talks by seeing Western ambassadors separately, suggested that the U.S.S.R. see the ambassadors together and start work on a summit agenda...
...U.S.S.R. hardened its line on summit talks, too. One day last week the Kremlin's Khrushchev sent a bitter letter to President Eisenhower rejecting the U.S.'s latest offer to begin joint technical studies on disarmament, adding a new attack on nuclear tests "causing an ever-present and ever-mounting danger to the health and life of the people . . . from radiation hazards." President Eisenhower prodded right back that K. really ought to begin technical studies: "I am unhappy that valuable time is now being wasted...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, committed to summit talks if diplomats can agree on an agenda, felt strong enough in terms of British public opinion to launch an attack against the Labor Party's line on nuclear tests. "What prevents war," he said, "is the balance of power. Peace has been preserved thus far not because the West has been disarmed but because the present balance is roughly equal. I would not like to be responsible for the outcome if we were to abandon the balance." Said the New York Times: "The Soviet strategy emphasizes again Moscow...
...desk in the U.S. embassy on Tchaikovsky Street in Moscow one afternoon last week, Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. got a telephone message from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Would 6 o'clock that evening be all right for the first preliminary talks about a summit meeting? It was. Thompson put on his coat and Homburg, got into his Cadillac, went off to confer with Gromyko. Time of conference: 35 minutes. Next day Britain's Ambassador Sir Patrick Reilly heard the telephone's ring, also got 35 minutes with Gromyko. France's Ambassador Maurice Dejean...
...Admitted in answer to a question about future summit talks that he "wouldn't have any brief now to file as to the accomplishments of the [1955] Geneva Conference...