MOSCOW TEST-BAH TALKS
Khrushchev's docislon to attond the IS July opening of tho talksuclear tost ban reflects the importance the USSR attaches to those His docislon was publicized on tbe eve of the talks after Moscow hadcries of gestures designed toavorable atmosphere for the Karrlsmn-Hallsham Since the talks began, Moscow has maintained strict secrecy on the details of tbe discussions. The Soviet press, however, has from pagod the brief daily communiques noting tho "favorable atmosphere" at tho conference tablo.
Prior to the opening of tho talks the Sovieta spate of articles pegged to tbe negotiations. The tono of this press commentary was generally optimistic, although the authors issued the usual warnings about "certainarticularly ln West Germany and the Pentagon, which seek to obstruct agreement.
Inuly talk with Belgian Foreign Minister Spaak, Khrushchev conveyed theto the former NATOgeneral that Moscow is not making agreementartial test ban contingent on the simultaneous signingATO -Warsaw Pact nonaggression troaty Spaak told the NATO Council onuly that while the Soviet loader mentioned atreaty, "lt did not seem to be of particular importance" to him. Spaak stated thatKhrushchev favored the
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e was not asas Spaak had expected he would be.
Spaak further noted that the subject of disarmament was the "most positive part" of the conversation. According to Spaak, Khrushchev appeared to think it would be possible toartial test-ban agreement which excludedtesting.
The impressions Spaakappear to be supported by an article in theuly Moscow News, the Soviet English-TarTguaite weekly. According to Ambassador Kohlor, theby E.ormerof the Soviet delegation to tho US-UK-USSR talksost ban in"clearer than any statement heretofore" tbat Moscow has dropped its previous insistenceoratorium ontestingartial test-ban accord and that Soviet leadors do notto Insist on thesigning of apactartial test-ban agreement.
The US ambassador noted tbat Fyodorov focused on tbe test-ban issue and treated the nonaggression Issue "casually" as another proposal which would "really make it possible to lessen internationalyodorov argued that2 July proposal would ban "all tests which can beslightest
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