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...begin to get down now to the heart of the matter," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at his news conference last week. The U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchanges about a second parley at the summit were moving into their 13th week, and the letters, notes and messages added up to 30,250 words-22,800 Communist, 7,450 U.S.-six times the wordage of the Constitution. "And the heart of the matter is," Dulles went on, "are you going to have a meeting that is likely to accomplish something? Or is it proposed to have a meeting which would only...
Dulles' statement did not drown out other talk that the U.S. and Russia would probably face each other at summit parley II in 1958. Topflight Washington correspondents speculated that the U.S. might be ready to change its position on nuclear-weapons tests, which was that the U.S. would not stop the tests unless the U.S.S.R. also stopped nuclear-weapons production. The new line: after this spring's nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll, the U.S. will know more about "clean bombs'' for limited wars, hence will have less to lose by agreeing to a stoppage of tests...
...Press Club since Litvinov did it in 1941, got down to the nub of his mission. "If our countries not only normalize their relations but start to live in friendship, their combined efforts will help to clear the atmosphere on our whole planet." The gimmick: a parley at the summit. "The very fact of convening such a conference will have a beneficial influence...
Driven by an unhappy awareness of Britain's declining power and her vulnerability to nuclear attack, an increasing number of Englishmen are disposed to favor summit talks on almost any terms. The parade of politicians who play on this wistful longing for talks for talk's sake is headed by Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The West should not insist on summit talks "supposed to put the final seal on everything," argues Gaitskell; instead, it should be willing to settle for what he calls "the ice-breaking type of conference...
...think I can put the position clearer than that." However noisy Labor's back benches, George Brown, speaking for the Opposition leadership, urged only that the actual construction of the missile bases be deferred until after the powers can have another go at disarmament at a summit meeting. On the essential point, Brown aligned Labor's leadership with the Tory government against his own rebels. "We have accepted the [nuclear] deterrent," he said...