POLICY AT SUMMIT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29179, 13 April 1960, Page 17

POLICY AT SUMMIT

West Begins Talks

(Rec. 10 p.m.). WASHINGTON, April 12. The Big Three Western Foreign Ministers meet today to review Allied progress in preparing for the East-West summit conference, due to open in Paris in five weeks.

The American, British and French Ministers will be joined tomorrow by the West German Foreign Minister for a detailed discussion of the German problem, including Berlin. The Foreign Ministers of Italy and Canada will also join in a review tomorrow afternoon of the disarmament situation.

The British Foreign Secretary. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, will set rolling the series of meetings, which will last until Thursday, when he calls on the Secretary of State. Mr Christian Herter, at the State Department. The French Foreign Minister, Mr Couve de Murville, is expected to call separately on Mr Herter. In the afternoon all three men will meet in Mr Herter’s office to discuss tactical and procedural questions relating to the summit.

The West German Foreign Minister, Dr. Henrich von Brentano, will join them tomorrow for a conference on the German question, including Berlin. To mark the Foreign Ministers’ meetings on summit preparations, the State Department today made public a historical survey of the background to the meeting next month in Paris of President Eisenhower, Mr Macmillan, President de Gaulle and Mr Khrushchev. It included documents previously published and official statements made at last year’s East-West Foreign Ministers’ meetings in Geneva, which dealt with the German and Berlin problems. The survey reviewed the history of the first post-war summit meeting in Geneva in July, 1955 and the Foreign Ministers’ conference of October and November, 1955 which followed it and which was “barren of accomplishment,’’ as Mr Dulles described it.