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meeting cOulQ De nelQ IN ParlS
before the end Of the year.
At President Eisenhower's
vacation headquarters at Au-
gusta, Ga, Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said regard
ing the reported De Gaulle in
vitation:
II don't know anything about
it,"
Asked whether that meant
Mr.. Eisenhower had not re-
ceived such an invitation, Mr..
Hagerty said:
"All it means is that I have
nothing on it-that the govern
meAt of the United States has
nothing"
Mr.. Eisenhower has advo-
Gated a Western summit meet
ing as an essential prelude to
any top level East-West con-
ference.
The Soviet statement did not
mention date for the gather
ing of the Big Four government
chiefs.
This statement followed by
about 16 hours a Tass story.
distributed in Moscow and later
Cancelled. that Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev on his Septem-
Der visit to the United States
told President Eisenhower the
Soviet government deems it
necessary that a summit con-
ference be convened before the
end of the year."
In canceling that story, sent
to the Moscow bureau of the
Associated Press with other
English-language translations,
Tass said it was distributed by
mistake. There was no other
explanation.
Gen. de Gaulle's invitation to
Mr.. Khrushchev to visit him in
Paris and the French leaders
preference for a Big Four meet
ing in the spring led United
States officials to talk about a
new timetable.
AS State Department author
tiles in Washington see it, the
present outlook is for a West
ern summit meeting IN early
December and a Geneva meet
ing of Mr.. Eisenhower, Gen. de
Gaulle, Mr.. Macmillan ano
Mr.. Khrushchev in March.
Malik Sees Lloyd
Soviet Ambassador Jacob A.
Mallk conferred in London to-
day with British Foreign Sec
rotary Selwyn Lloyd. Presum-
ably they discussed the whole
tangle of summit plans. Mr..
Lloyd had invited Mr.. Malik in.
British informants stressed,
however, that Britain is not
undertaking any new move on
the summit issue.
American and British regret
about the delay is based on a
theory that existing momen-
tum for easing East-West ten
sions may be lost. The French
discount that idea, believing
the Russians want the summit
conference as much or more
and will stay in line during
the interval.
Gen. de Gaulle's reported pro-
posal to meet with his allies
, appeared in line with his state
ment that the Western leaders
should meet in "leisurely" fash
ion several times in order to
work up a united policy for the
. future East-West summit con-
ference with Premier Khru-
; shchev.
It seemed unlikely Western
summit meeting could be ar
ranged in Paris before the lat
ter part of November.
Mr.. Adenauer is due to &C
to London for talks with Mr.
Macmillan November 1913
Before then Mr.. Lloyd is te
60 to Paris to confer with
Maurice Couve de Murville, the
French Foreign Minister.
And with Mr.. KhruShchev
repeatedly due to visit Paris
this autumn, the chances OF ar
East-West summit conference
this year now appeared most
remote.
At his news conference yes
ter, Mr.. Eisenhower repeated
that he was willing to go to a
Western summit meeting. He
said also that the longer we
postpone a Western summit
, why then that would have
some effect on pushing back
the meeting with Mr.. Khru-
= shchev.