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...then pulled a chair up to a coffee table near a fieldstone fireplace to work for an hour or so with Press Secretary James Hagerty. Not all the work was trivial, but neither was it lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked...
Back in mid-January, replying to Premier Bulganin's invitation to the summit, the President declared: "It would be essential that prior to such a meeting . . . complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by our foreign ministers." Last week, when a press-conference questioner asked Secretary of State Dulles whether "it is essential to hold a foreign ministers' meeting prior to a summit conference," Dulles replied: "No, it isn't essential...
Dulles pointed out that the President's letter to Bulganin did not explicitly call for a foreign ministers' "meeting." But measured against that letter's tone and spirit, Dulles' outright "No, it isn't essential" seemed a step toward the summit, a step dictated by the haunting need to avoid seeming "rigid" in the eyes of neutrals, allies and the soft-line camp at home. Since the Russians had already conceded that the U.S. insistence on advance preparations is "correct," Dulles' concession seemed to leave no barrier to ambassador-level discussions of an agenda...
That could hardly have worried Harold Stassen less: he was already hard at work hammering tenpenny nails into his political platform. His first plank: "There should be a summit conference-the sooner the better...
...goal of converting the Jews to Christianity. There is a grave question as to how these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism." To explore these problems, Gordis proposes a conference of all Jewish national organizations, lay and rabbinic. Before such a Semitic summit meeting, Gordis would lay a "two-pronged program." Prong No. I : a pilot mission to Japan, which "would not encounter the difficulties that might arise in a country in which Christianity is dominant." Prong No. 2: information centers on Judaism throughout...