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...those splendid diplomatic parties in Moscow where Soviet leaders permit themselves a few jovial words with Western correspondents, Russia's Premier Bulganin was asked whether there might be a "parley at the summit" after the Foreign Ministers met. "Ask Eisenhower and Eden about the date," he replied. "I have made my position clear." He had already said that he "took a positive attitude" toward Big Four talks...
...atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better working conditions...
...solve the whaling problem and set at rest Western, fears about Russian honesty, the International Whaling Commission has called for a conference at the summit--of whaling commissioners--for next July. All participants may be sure justice will be done, for the discussions will take place in Moscow, the home-land of law, order, and scientific whaling...
...tired eyes and furrowed forehead, he still wears a boyish air. Yet, when Dwight Eisenhower was an army major in the Philippines, Khrushchev an obscure bureaucrat, Nehru a revolutionary in jail and Mao Tse-tung an outlaw in the Shensi hills, the youthful Mr. Eden was parleying at the summit with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin...
...special Yalta section deals with the documents - how the peace was lost before the war was won. It relates in detail how three men at the summit of authority sought to reshape the world in a week. What emerges is the real "spirit" of Yalta, a story more tragic than sensational. It is, as Shaw remarked, an "incredible fairy tale," but one without a happy ending, as you will see upon reading The Yalta Story...