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Kennedy Khrushchev Send Hopeful Notes

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beginning Of the Cuban crisis
as a special adviser to Mr..
Stevenson, chief American dele
gate to the U. N.
Mr.. Salinger said he was not
sure whether Mr.. McCloy's ap-
pointment as head of the special
co-ordinating committee meant
that he would act as the OPP
posite number of First Deputy
Soviet Foreign Minister Kuz-
netsov, sent to the U. N. by
Premier Khrushchev yesterday
with special instructions on
working out arrangements for
U. N. yerification of the pull
out of Soviet offensive weapons
from Cuba.
Mr.. Kennedy labeled the
Sunday climax. to a week of
extraordinary tension as a "step
back from danger" and relaxed
yesterday afternoon with his
family at Glen Ora, their coun-
try estate near Middleburg, Va.
Obviously gratified by Mos
cows apparently complete ac-
ceptance of his terms for end
ing the Cuban crisis, the Pres
ident hailed Mr.. Khrushchev's
decision as "StateSmanlike" and
IAN important and constructive
contribution to peace"
Would End Blockade
The latest in a rapid-fire
series of messages from the
Soviet Premier told the Presi-
dent that he had ordered work
stopped on building nuclear
missile bases in Cuba, and the
offensive" weapons themselves
dismantled, Grated and returned
to Russia-all this to be verified
by United Nations inspectors.
For his part-once he is sat-
isfied that effective U. N. ar
engagements are made to insure
that the Soviet commitments /
are carried out-the President
has agreed to end the 'five-day-
old American blockade and
guarantee Cuba against inva-
sion.
There was no mention by Mr..
Khrushchev of the earlier
KremliR proposal that mis-
siles bases in Turkey be dis
n1antled in exchange for the
removal of the Cuban missiles.
Mr.. Kennedy cabled Mr..
Khrushchev last night that he
considered their exchange OF
messages "as firm undertakings
on the part of both our Gov
ernments which should be
promptly carried out"
Ease Other Tensions
He added that he hoped nee
esSary measures can be taken
at once through the U. N. 80
that the United States in turn
will be able to remove the quar-
antine measures now in effect"
In the most cordial exchange
between American and Soviet
leaders in many months, both
Mr.. Khrushchev and Mr.. Ken
needy said they wanted to push
on with other efforts to ease
world tension through a nuclear
test ban and disarmament.
Stirring new speculation
about a possible early summit"
meeting, Mr.. Kennedy said the
United States is ready to dis
cuss such questions urgently"
at Geneva or elsewhere"
Despite the tension easing
Sunday developments, Ameri-
can officials did not discount
the ever-present threat of a
new showdown with the Rus
slams in Berlin at any time.
The White House ignored a
broadcast demand by Mr.. Cas-
tro that the United States
abandon its Navy base at
Guantanamo, apparently con-
sidering him a puppet to be
brought into line-or cast
aside-by the big Red boss
pulling the strings from Mos
cow.
Evidence Needed
But the books could not be
safely closed on the Cuban
crisis until there was clear EVIL
dence that Soviet weapons
capable of raining nuclear
destruction throughout the
Western Hemisphere actually
were being pulled out as prom
iSed. /
For the time being the United
States kept up its guard. Amer
lean reconnaissance planes kept
a close watch to make sure no
missiles in Cuba are made ready
to blast off, planes and war
ships maintained their "quaran-
tine" patrols to block further
shipment of offensive arms to
Cuba, and there was no relax
alton of American military
preparations "for any event.
ualities."
Made skeptical by Soviet du-
plicity over the years, many
Americans considered the Khru-
shchev backdown in the Cuban
crisis almost too good to be
true and wondered where the
"ioker" was. But key officials.
keeping their fingers crossed,
were inclined to believe he
meant what he said in this
case.
Moscow Broadcast
Contributing to this belief,
paradoxically, as it may seem,
was the fact that Mr.. Khru-
shchev's message accepting the
Presidents terms was broad
cast to the Russian people over
Moscow radio even before it
was started on its way to Mr..
Kennedy via the American En-
basSy in Moscow.
Such undiplomatic action
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