Evening star., 1955-07-24
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Of barriers which interfere with
free communications and peace
full trade between people" and
encourage freer contacts be-
tween East and West.
Exactly what these various
quote agreements" add up to in
terms of a cold war truce will be
hotly debated over coming weeks.
In the end everything will de-
pend on how faithfully the noble
sentiments contained in the
leaders instructions are followed
when the foreign ministers and
the Disarmament Commission
and the experts get down to
brass tackS.
For the moment, however, the
summit conference seems to have
accomplished what it was sup
posed to accomplish: To set a
new tone in relations between
East and West and lay down
broad lines leading to a settle
ment Of major problems.
Leaders Are Pleased
Each of the leaders in his clos
ing remarks expressed the con-
viction tina this had been done.
Said President Eisenhower:
1T is my Judgment that the
prospects of a lasting peace with
instice well being and broader
freedom are brighter. The dam
gers of an overwhelming tragedy
of modern war are less"
An official Soviet spokesman
went further. The Geneva con-
ference, he declared. would be
recorded as a quote turning
point in the history Of the
world"
Opens On Dismal Note
The final day of the con-
ference opened on dismal note.
Shortly after midnight, the news
came that the meeting Of the
foreign ministers had broken up
without reaching agreement.
Their decision had been to re-
verse the normal process Of this
conference and dump various
issues back on the heads Of state
in the hope of top level COM
promise.
1t seemed like a forlorn hope.
The ministers. it was learned,
were at odds on every sub
stantial point at issue. Even the
questions of German reunifica-
tion and European security-re-
ported nailed down earlier in the
day-had apparently come un-
stuck again.
Soviet Foreign Minister Molo-
tov was up to his old tricks,
pleading lack of instructions
on the questions under discus
sion. Mr.. Molotov-who pos
sesses an uncanny knack for re-
peating the same sentence for
hours at a time-seemed in nc
hurry to climb down from the
positions he had taken.
Its almost like old times" a
delegate was heard to remark
"For all I could see, we are
getting nowhere at ALL"
No Follow-Up Implied
In official circles. private talk
was increasingly gloomy. The
possibility that no follow-up
meeting Of the Foreign Ministers
would result from the conference
'could not be excluded" The
implication was clear that there
might be little or nothing to
follow up.
What hope remained lay in the
conviction, widely held among
observers here. that the con-
ference simply could not be
allowed to end in total failure
Each Of the Big Four leaders
had an imperative political rea-
son for Salvaging at least the
appearance Of progress. Official
spokesmen, who talked about
progress" being made where NO
progress was visible, strength
ened this impression.
The signs of a possible break
came in the morning with the
report that Soviet Defense Min
lister Zhukov had asked for a
private meeting with President
Eisenhower at the Palais des
Nations. From the beginning
there has been much speculation
about what might come out Of
animate talks between these two
old friends. Their meetings have
been virtually the only feature
of this conference over which 9
firm cloak Of secrecy has beer
drawn.
As one American official pu
It: III there's any chance tina
something good viii come out o
It why should we do anything II
rock the boat"
Reporters on hand for Mar.