Conciliation Held Likely

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30177, 8 July 1963, Page 11

Conciliation Held Likely

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 7. The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr Khrushchev, has decided to seek a new understanding with the United States, the “New York Times” reported from Moscow today.

The policy development was said to stem from Moscow’s abandonment of hope for a reconciliation with China.

Western Governments had been alerted to the likelihood, that Soviet foreign policy was entering “a new stage of fluidity that may allow for negotiations of a number of limited East-West agreements

"This estimate has taken into account the possible results of the ideological talks.” the newspaper said “Responsible Western diplomats regard the hardening of differences between Moscow and Peking u a de facto spilt and a historical development of the first importance. "They believe that the shock administered to Soviet thinking by the recent renewal of Chinese Communist ideological attacks has led Mr Khrushci ev’s decision to review his relations with the West, especially the United States “This impression has been gained from published Soviet statements, the Premier’s speech last Tuesday in East Berlin, in which he raised the possibility of a partial treaty on a nuclear test ban. and private conversations in Moscow.” Possible areas of agreement were a limited nuclear

test ban applicable to tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater, and an agreement not to give nuclear weapons to Powers that did not already have them.

While privately looking for understanding with the West, however, Mr Khrushchev might be compelled to adopt a public posture of heightened Communist militancy in deference to the Chinese, the newspaper said