For the Record

Operation that failed: Dwight Eisenhower’s invitation was hardly out before President John Burns of New York’s Young Republican Club asked Nikita Khrushchev to address the group. Last week the club’s Board of Governors overruled their president and withdrew the invitation. Will others do likewise?… Left-wing British press, at first delighted by Ike-Khrushchev exchange, now asking: where does this leave conciliator Macmillan? (Answer: out)…. French papers gleefully reporting hot time in the Elysée Palace when Eisenhower visits de Gaulle. The French president furious when he got the word of invitation to Khrushchev…. Reports that Khrushchev invitation had been ‘‘forced” on Eisenhower by “the alliance” evidently a great surprise also to French Premier Michel Debré, who spoke openly of France’s fear she might be crushed by “agreements between very great powers.”

The State Department insists it has received virtually no mail protesting forthcoming Khrushchev visit…. On the other hand, the White House is the object of growing mail campaign; each letter contains a white feather for the “surrender” conference…. A Swedish weekly asks editorially, are Americans ten times more cowardly than Swedes? Points out that Sweden, with only 7.5 million inhabitants and living virtually in Russia’s backyard, voiced such antagonism to Khrushchev’s visit there that Khrushchev huffily refused to go… Recommended reading: Khrushchev’s much-quoted warning to the West that he would bury us. Two sentences later he said: “If you don’t like us, don’t invite us.to come to see you.”

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Operation that failed: Dwight Eisenhower’s invitation was hardly out before President John Burns of New York’s Young Republican Club asked Nikita Khrushchev to address the group. Last week the club’s Board of Governors overruled their president and withdrew the invitation. Will others do likewise?… Left-wing British press, at first delighted by Ike-Khrushchev exchange, now asking: where does this leave conciliator Macmillan? (Answer: out)…. French papers gleefully reporting hot time in the Elysée Palace when Eisenhower visits de Gaulle. The French president furious when he got the word of invitation to Khrushchev…. Reports that Khrushchev invitation had been ‘‘forced” on Eisenhower by “the alliance” evidently a great surprise also to French Premier Michel Debré, who spoke openly of France’s fear she might be crushed by “agreements between very great powers.”

The State Department insists it has received virtually no mail protesting forthcoming Khrushchev visit…. On the other hand, the White House is the object of growing mail campaign; each letter contains a white feather for the “surrender” conference…. A Swedish weekly asks editorially, are Americans ten times more cowardly than Swedes? Points out that Sweden, with only 7.5 million inhabitants and living virtually in Russia’s backyard, voiced such antagonism to Khrushchev’s visit there that Khrushchev huffily refused to go… Recommended reading: Khrushchev’s much-quoted warning to the West that he would bury us. Two sentences later he said: “If you don’t like us, don’t invite us.to come to see you.”