Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-05
WITHOUT GLOVES?
How to Handle Khrushchey

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we will show the world how
peace loving and right want
ing the American people are.
And how ridiculous Mr..
Khrushchev is in insisting
that Russia has the right
answers to everything.
Let's have America take
the reins and bring the
world powers to a summit
meeting which will explode
Russia's hollow propaganda
front and bring the truth to
the forefront.
John J. McGrath, jr.
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Fletcher Knebel reports:
"Khrushchev says he will 60
anywhere for a summit con-
ference. That's our cue. Let's
suggest Budapest"
! second the motion.
Assuming a summit con-
ference on the Middle East
is now inevitable, and q
propaganda war is the pri-
mary Soviet motive In at
tending such q conference,
no other location would do
more to assist the Western
cause.
The advantages are APP
parent.
1t is on Eastern bloc terri
. tory, thus representing in the
eyes Of the world a Western
concession to Khrushchev's
proposal that such a meeting
should not be held in N. Y.
1t would take much of the
force out Of the planned So
Wet propaganda offensive.
The date-lines on the news
dispatches -Budapest-alone
would make the Soviet ha-
rangues in favor Of month";
tervention," self determine
ton" and nationalist upris-
ings" a grim mockery in the
eyes Of all thinking men. How
could the leaders Of the Arab
states sit in conference in
Budapest and still believe
that the Soviet Union is their
ally against foreign domin-
atom"
1t presents unlimited OPP
portunities for comparison Of
the treatment of small ma
tions at the hands of the two
greatest world powers. All
comparisons in this location
must be favorable to the
West. 1t is one thing for a
United States delegate to
stand in an aforementioned
conference room in New York
City. surrounded by skyscrap-
ers and the evidence of West
ern power and riches, and de-
fend the landing of United
States troops in tiny Leba-
non. It is quite another thing
to sit in the rubble and debris
Of once-proud Budapest and
discuss the relative advan-
tageS of Soviet domination
and Western assistance.
ID. E. CrabilI.
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Ths British press has por-
trayed our President as being
too sick" to hold up his end
Of a summit conference
without relying on a care
fully laid agenda. This letter
intends not to condone or
condemn the health or the
ability of the President. 1t
is an attempt to review the
Presidents position. This
same review might serve well
in the old argument Of select
ing a militarily trained or
politically trained leader to
lead our Nation.
There is no extempora-
neous thinking or speaking in
the Army. The agenda is laid
out at the top and passed
down the rank by command.
The corporal listens to the
sergeant. the sergeant lis
tens to the lieutenant. and
so on up the ladder to the
general.
Gen. Ike is good at reading
or reciting a memorized pre-
pared statement, but at a
press conference, II a reporter
strays from the Presidents
arranged mental agenda. Ike
becomes red with frustra-
ton.
At a summit meeting he
will be Just another chair,
and his chair will be the
target for some big guns.
Nikita Khrushchev. with his
years Of actual political ex-
perience in handling those
guns, aims to shoot straight
and hard at any prepared
statements our President
might make or read.
In all fairness and with
true sympathy, / cannot
blame President Eisenhower
for hedging, lodging or de-
laying a summit meeting
without a bullet-proof agenda.
Sid Rufus.