Evening star., 1960-09-27
Red Boss Eats
0ffGoId Plates
Al Eaton Party

NEW YORK, Sept. 81 (AP) |
Soviet Premier Khrushchev,
dining off gold plates with a !
group of capitalists, proposed
that if the world powers dis
arm and disband their armies
he would accept any arms con-
troll anyone proposes"
The Kremlin boss said he
favors strict international con-
troll of disarmament, but he
added:
I'VE are demanding disarm-
ament precisely under control,
and not control over arma-
mentS."
Mr.. Khrushchev made his
remarks at a dazzling luncheon
given yesterday by Cyrus
Eaton, the Cleveland flnancier
and industrialiSt.
About 200 American and Ca
madam buSinessmen-plus a.
croSs-section of Scientists, ed
ucators and Others" as MIR.
Eaton described them at
tended the well-guarded lunch
con in the 19th-fioor grand
ballroom at the Biltmore Hotel.
Truffies and Strawberries
The guests, many of whom
wished to remain anonymous,
ate conSomme with egg Gus
tard drops, filet of beef with
truff1e sauce and frozen fresh
strawberries favored with rum.
White and red wines were
served.
The table service was glitter
ing 14-carat gold-from the
plates down to the butter
knives.
1t was Mr.. Khrushchev's first
formal address since his United
NatlonS speech last week.
Multimillionaire Eaton. long
an advocate of closer United
States Soviet trade relations
and Of peaceful co-existence
between the two powers, told
his guests:
I. as a capitalist, believe
there is abundant room for both
of our systems, and others, to
flourish side by side on the same
planet.
Unfortunately, the greatest
present obstacle to constructive
worldwide economic progress
is the arms race. Many of us
recognize the mortal hazards
OF humanity of modern war
fare. fought with the fantastic
new implements of nuclear an
Inhalation
I uggeSt that we now earn
estly put forward the unoues-
toned economic advantages to
both our countries of termi-
mating the arms race"
Praises Khrushchev
Mr.. Eaton. 76, winner of the
Lenin Peace Prize given by
Russia, characterized Mr..
khrushchev as the most dis
tinguished representative of the
world of socialist economy"
He said he had met mo bet
ter Informed man" in his life
time.
Mr.. Khrushchev pointed to
himself and Mr.. Eaton as Com
munist and capitalist who
have not lost the ability
to sensibly understand one
another, to argue, to disagree
on quite a few questions, but
without declaring war upon
one another, and without
scowling when we meet"
Only one Western reporter
was permitted to cover the
luncheon in its entirety as a
pool representative. Commu-
mist block reporters were ad-
mitted, however.
Several reporters climbed
fire StairwayS to gain access to
the ballroom. After the food
was eaten, several more
Western reporters were allowed
inside.
The guest list was not made
public, but among those at the
head table were:
John Kusik, vice president of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road; Thomas B. Adams of
Boston, a descendent of john
Adams and John Quincy
Adams; John Duncan, head of
the Ontario Hydroelectric Corp.
Of Canada; William B. Daley,
president of the Cleveland In
dianS.
Mark Eastin, president of
the Kentucky Coal Co.; M. S.
Fotheringham, of the SteepI
Rock Iron Mines, Ltd, of On
tario, and Abe List of Phila-
delphia.