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...shuffle of letters to Western chiefs of government and cocktail-party comments to Western diplomats, the Kremlin has been working hard to spread the notion that a parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before...
...accidental symbolism the Explorer's success drove the Russian propaganda campaign for a summit meeting off the front pages. Overseas, U.S. allies generally cheered Explorer's success more enthusiastically than did the cautious U.S. itself. At home, TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities reported that citizens generally shrugged their shoulders, said they knew it would happen, or said, "It's about time...
Ever since the summit conference at Geneva in 1955 the U.S. and Russia have been trying to work out a cultural exchange agreement. Last week, after three months of negotiations, they signed one which, if carried out in good faith, might be an important "beginning of a beginning" (as Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put it). Under its terms the two nations undertake, during 1958 and 1959, to swap...
...midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21); neither Menderes nor any other Turkish politician thought the matter important enough to warrant more than passing mention in their speeches. At the Paris summit meeting this winter, most European NATO members dithered unhappily over the wisdom of accepting U.S. missile bases; Menderes spoke up to announce that Turkey was eager for any and all missiles whenever offered...
...hunting lodge on the Polish side of the Soviet's western borders, there met for three days in closely guarded secrecy with Poland's Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz. Likely subjects: 1) inter-party differences brought out at last November's Communist summit meeting in Moscow, notably Gomulka's reluctance to accept revival of any sort of Comintern; 2) coordinated moves to follow up Poland's plan for creating a "denuclearized" zone in central Europe; 3) Gomulka's bullheaded insistence on trying to borrow some $100 million from the U.S. rather...