Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-11
Rusk PLANNING
New TaIkon
Berlin Dispute
By the Associated Press

Secretary of State RuSk to-
day set UP a new United States
Soviet exploratory talk in the
long search for a Berlin settle
ment formula. He made a date
to see Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin late tomorrow.
Agreement on the new meet
ing, which Mr.. Rusk initiated,
became known in the wake Of
a new public proposal by Pre-
mier Khrushchev for with
drawal Of United States, Brit
ish and French forces from
West Berlin and their subSti-
tuition by Allied and Communist
small-nation troops under the
United Nations flag.
But State Department off,
Gals said the discussion, set for
4 pm. tomorrow, was not sug-
gested by Mr.. Rusk because Of
the Khrushchev speech.
1t was rather that the Ken
nedy administration believes 1t
is important to maintain reg
ular United States-Soviet con-
tact on the Berlin dispute. The
State Department had already.
issued a statement yesterday
branding Mr.. Khrushchev's
troop proposal as unacceptable.
Actually, the Rusk-Dobrynin
meeting is considered here to
be preliminary to a probable
meeting in the next week or 10
days between Mr.. Rusk and
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko on the Berlin situa-
ton.
Both the United States and
Soviet foreign policy directors
are due in Geneva about that
time to sign final accords on
the naturalization Of Laos, as
Stunning that present negotia-
lions succeed in producing
agreement by then. The pres
ent prospect is that Mr.. Rusk
will fly to Geneva late next,
week, but his plans are not yet
firm.
Rocket-Rattling Speech
State Department Press Of
ficer Lincoln White issued the
United States reply yesterday
hard on the heels Of reports
of Mr.. Khrushchev's rocket
rafting speech to the Peace
Congress" now meeting In
Moscow.
Mr.. Khrushchev proposed
that Belgian and Dutch, or
Norwegian and Danish, troops,
plus Communist Polish and
Czechoslovakian units, replace
the present American, British
and French garrisons in West
Berlin.
Mr.. White disclosed that the
United States, IN Secretary
Rusk's private conversations
with the Soviets, had already
turned down a Soviet suggeS-
ton that the smaller NATO
and Warsaw Pact powers re-
place the Western Big Three in
Communist surrounded West
Berlin.
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Western StrategiSts regard
the continued military presence
Of the big powers in West Ber-
lin as vital to the life Of that
city under Red pressure. They
feel past KhruShchev proposals,
Including making West Berlin
a free city" and substituting
a U. N. presence for the West
crn garrisons, are aimed at
eventual Communist control.
Mr.. White said:
Chairman Khrushchev's
statement appears to be one Of
the variants Of Soviet proposals
previously put forward designed
to reduce or eliminate the posi-
ton Of the three Western
powers in West Berlin.
For example. in the aide
memoire from the Soviet Union
to the United States of June 4,
1861 latter Mr.. KhruShchev's
Vienna meeting with President
Kennedy, the Soviet govern
ment proposed the introduction
Of token Soviet troop contin-
gents into West Berlin.
ut has already been indicated
to the Soviets that the particu-
lar variant mentioned by Chair
man Khrushchev today does
not provide a satisfactory basis
for negotiation"
In London, a British Foreign
Office spokesman took the same
view. declaring the presence Of