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...timing was all-important. For many months the U.S. had been resisting the idea of a "conference at the summit." Those months were the critical period when the issue of rearming West Germany hung in the balance. The U.S.S.R. made it menacingly plain that it would do everything it could and dared to prevent German rearmament. The Soviet attitude stirred neutralists and others to support a "conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk...
What will the men at the summit talk about? There is no agreed agenda, but the main issues that logically would come up are clear...
...discussion. No agenda or plan. No subject barred but none listed. He hopes to sense the atmosphere in the Soviet delegation, clarify his own mind a bit, discover whether the new Soviet leaders are "sincerely hoping to relieve tensions." He wouldn't even have the men "at the summit" try to set up an agenda for the foreign ministers. He would only try to define the broad areas "in which people would start to work." This seems like a dangerously informal approach to the most important international conference in ten years. It defies all rules of diplomacy as well...
...Soviet delegation will not arrive "at the summit" with any lack of plan...
...Soviets enter conferences as they enter military battles. They open with a major offensive. They shoot the diplomatic works at their opponents. And when the opponents stagger they shoot another round. The United States already is late in trying to grab the initiative for peace. The wheels for a "summit" meeting are turning fast. The President should find an early opportunity to restate America's position on all outstanding world problems-a restatement that vividly portrays America's peaceful aims. He should reconsider doing this at the tenth anniversary meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco...