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Because the cagey Europeans had got first attention at the best hotels and villas, the U.S. was hard-pressed to find quarters for its delegation. Not until the middle of last week did President Eisenhower have a place to lay his head on the summit. Then Mme. André Firmenich, Scottish wife of a Swiss millionaire perfume-maker, consented to rent her 15 room Chateau du Creux de Genthod because "we could hardly refuse to offer it to the President...
...Impending Collapse. As they made their preparations, the statesmen publicly pondered what they would talk about on the summit, and why they were going...
...Equal to equal," was the way Russia's Boss Khrushchev described the climate of the summit. "We are not going to Geneva with broken legs" (see FOREIGN NEWS). At his weekly press conference, President Eisenhower responded: "So far as I know there is no individual in the Government that has ever said that the Russians . . . are coming to any conference weak. Of course we recognize their great military strength...
Hope, Not Expectation. As the summit was approached, the men who will meet there were clarifying their objectives (see box). Said the Soviet Union's Bulganin: "The lessening of tension should be the aim of this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...
...Parley at the Summit will have no fixed agenda, but both sides will arrive in Geneva with a well-defined set of objectives. On the eve of the conference the basic outline of these objectives is clear...