Evening star., 1958-05-06

Grated from the complete on
cial harmony which has been
shown on a number Of tough
questions raised during the FIRST
day and q half Of this confer
ence. This Is. 10 be sure. ofiicial
harmony. Some delegates -
Scandinavians, British and
French for lnstance-have ex-
pressed private reservations on
some points.
But even they say Is free
nations cannot possibly think
as one and that II is a thing Of
Joy 10 see all Is voluntarily
bury their differences and agree
on one positive course Of COM
mon action.
Dulles Doing Wen
Examples of the new degree
Of political harmony cited by
the delegates are: Agreement
on the approach to a summit
meeting. successful use Of the
mechanisIms of political con-
sultation within NATO during
the past five months, q new
agreement to push for q greater
economic role Of NATO and a
general agreement to stand by
the American rejection Of Po-
lands Rapacki plan for a de-
atomized zone in Central
Europe.
II can be said. incidentally,
that the American point Of view
has carried through the con-
ference so far. The American
delegates say some countries
stu may rise up with a sort |
Of dissent that has marked pre-
vious NATO conferences but |
thev say so far Secretary Of !
State Dulles is batting 1000.
The torturous drive toward
a summit conference Is still the |
biggest conference topic. Mr.. |
Dulles yesterday outlined at
tempts by the British, French |
and American ambassadors in |
Moscow to arrange a summit |
meeting and get some measure
Of agreement on problems to be |
discussed there. He said there
has been no visible progress
since efforts started March 81. /
But he said the Big Three
thought they should keep try
ing. They should not become
discouraged by procedural OBJ
stacleS thrown up by Russia,
he said. but they should insist |
that the ambassadors find q
reasonable ground for believing
a summit meeting can at least
begin to resolve some of the
great world problems: Disarm-
ament. security against sudden
attack, German reunification,
etc. Without progress on these
issues. there should be no sum-
NIT conference, he said.
Other delegations backed
Mr.. Dulles position but en-
phasized that the West should
not slacken efforts to have pro-
ductive summit talks. Il
New Red Attitude Seen
Privately, spokesmen for the
Danish, Norwegian, German and
British governments - govern
ments under the strongest pub
lie pressure for summit talks
said their people wanted West
ern heads Of state to sit down
with Premier Nikita Khrushchev
but that If Russians clearly
were rejecting fruitful meet
ing, then they would be willing
to let the summit idea die at
this time. These delegates re-
ported q growing belief In their
countries that the Russians have
indeed changed their minds
about wanting q top-level con-
ference.
The delegates also agreed
with Mr.. Dulles warning that
the Russians are laying traps
for the West in pre-summit
negotiations. Soviet insistence
that the Ambassadors not talkEi
about substantial issues and its
lnStstence that one Communist
country be at the summit ses-
sions for each Western country
were cited as dangerous trends.
British and Scandinavian
spokesmen indicated their gov
ernments were not as worried
about these traps as Mr.. Dulles
is, but right now they are back
ing the United States approach.
NATO's Secretary General
Spaak spent considerable time
yesterday relating how well po-
litical CONSULTATION. has been
made to work. He pointed out
that the common policy on the
Bulganin letters, disarmament
and q summit conference had
been worked out during recent
weekly meetings of the
NATO Council. And Norwe-
gian Foreign Minister Lange
said NATO has even been able
to Coordinate q major policy
position in q few short days as
was demonstrated during the
United Nations debate Of Arc
tic inspections.
The French and Scandinavia
ans had one private reservation
on the subject Of consultations,
pointing out that the American
note rejecting the Rapacki
plan had been shown them on
May ! and made public on May
mot enough time over the
May Day holiday period for
them to register objections If
they had had them. Actually
they had none but would have
preferred greater American
delicacy on timing.
In general Mr.. Spaak's thesis
that political consultation now
works after three years Of ma