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...text of the latest message from the Kremlin, delivered to President Eisenhower and to the chiefs of other Western nations last week, set the world off on fresh speculation about a summit meeting. From Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came an aide-mémoire agreeing to a pre-summit conference of foreign ministers-a condition once insisted upon by the U.S. but since dropped (TIME, Feb. 24). This foreign ministers' conference, Gromyko added, should handle the housekeeping details of the summit, i.e., time, place, agenda, and should be convened in April. Gromyko did not say whether the foreign...
...prospects of agreement thoroughly canvassed before any new impression of thaw is created. For example, the U.S., as the President told the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin in January, wants to talk about: 1) reunification of Germany by free elections-agreed to by the U.S.S.R. at the parley at the summit in July 1955 but since ignored by the Russians; 2) the right of satellite peoples to choose their own form of government; 3) a package disarmament plan linking foolproof stoppage of nuclear tests to foolproof stoppage of nuclear production; 4) outer space for peaceful purposes...
Agreement to discuss these questions of substance with a view to making concessions would be a price for the Kremlin to pay-but it is for the Kremlin to decide whether it wants a parley at the summit badly enough in fact to make a real down payment...
...move toward better relations and with the greater necessity than ever before of doing so." So saying, the President last week sprinkled a generous measure of salty common sense into the bubbling chowder kettle of speeches, letters and rumors that have been steaming up the need for a summit meeting...
Whatever the cause, the President said, if the Russians really want a big-power parley at the summit, they should be willing to discuss agenda topics proposed by the U.S. But if the Russians insist on restricting agenda topics, then "we would . . . end up in the ludicrous posture of just glaring silently at each other across the table...