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Having mapped out their base camp in the careful approach to Geneva's summit, the diplomatic Alpinists adjourned until next day, when they met with Germany's Konrad Adenauer in the Waldorf Tower. After three hours all plans were dovetailed, all differences ironed out. The ministers agreed to meet with other NATO representatives in Paris on July 10, as a prelude to Geneva. As the diplomats parted, the new confidence was salted with a grain of caution. Said Antoine Pinay: "It would be very naïve to take signs as proof of Russia's peaceful intentions...
...conference at the summit should be restricted to business, with sumptuous parties and endless toasting ruled...
...eyes at Germany, too, and Adenauer wanted to consult his American friends on coordinated action. In informal talks Adenauer, Secretary Dulles and the President reached complete agreement on the steps to be taken. Adenauer would "probably" accept his invitation to the Kremlin, but not until after the Geneva summit conference in July and not until the Russians had answered three pointed questions: 1) What does Russia propose to do about the German prisoners of war still behind the Iron Curtain? 2) What plans does Russia have for revising Germany's eastern frontier? and 3) What do the Russians intend...
Western diplomats took wing too. Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's Antoine Pinay headed for New York for pre-summit consultations. Chancellor Adenauer took off in a new Lufthansa plane and a scheduled lunch with Eisenhower. They now had something fresh to talk about...
Next problem for Sir Gavin was to decide which pass was crossed by Hannibal. Old accounts say that from its summit, the invading Carthaginians could see the plains of Piedmont. This ruled out all except three passes. To pick the one that Hannibal took, Sir Gavin used ancient evidence that the army found new snow in the pass and also old snow from the preceding year. Climatological data, based on pollen grains found in ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only...