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While Kennan thinks that a summit conference would be worthless (TIME, Dec. 2), he believes that Western nations should begin to negotiate, at an ambassadorial level, some sort of deal in which the Soviets would pull their military forces out of the satellites in return for the neutralization and reunification of Germany...
...move, the leaders labored under a burden of expectations that was of their own making. Conceived hastily as a dramatic device for restoring Western morale in the face of Sputnik, the meeting had been called before anyone had concluded just what it could be dramatic about. "Unless the NATO summit meeting conference achieves something great, it will be a failure,'' declared West Germany's Trierischer Volksfreund, saying what most chiefs of government recognized. But calculated leakage of exactly what each nation would propose had robbed the conference in advance of much of its potential dramatic impact...
...Eagerness. In the tumble of vague plans and great expectations that had been thrown into the summit hopper, there was one clear and urgent need-the U.S. need for IRBM bases in Europe to counter Russia's missile potential, its threat to the U.S. and to U.S. retaliatory power. But many of the NATO allies were far from eager to accept the U.S. offer of missiles for bases. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, in a quick swing through Europe's capitals, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of preconference meetings in Paris, had quickly learned...
...these agreements would demand all the skill of U.S. diplomacy, all the force of leadership the U.S. could summon, both at the summit conference and thereafter. "Our relations with Europe," said one foreign policy expert last week, "are now entering the acute phase. Europe's bargaining position is very high now and will get higher before it declines...
PARIS, Dec. 18--Atlantic Alliance leaders agreed unanimously today to gird Europe for push-button rocket warfare. This victory for President Eisenhower's strategy of nuclear stockpiles and medium-range missile bases in Britain and on the Continent was a NATO summit conference compromise...