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    "title": "USSR: Vienna meeting: Background documents, 1953-1961: General",
    "description": "This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Soviet Union. Materials in this file include newspaper articles, background papers on nuclear science and possible cooperative space exploration projects, a summary of a telephone conversation between President Kennedy and French President General Charles de Gaulle, an itinerary for President Kennedy's trip to Vienna, Austria, and copies of a joint statement issued by the President and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev concerning nuclear weapons, disarmament, and Germany following discussions in Vienna. The majority of this file consists of telegrams and memoranda to President Kennedy from Cabinet members and advisors regarding suggested strategies for discussing subjects such as nuclear weapons, disarmament, Berlin, and Laos with Premier Khrushchev.",
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        "Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971",
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    "ocrText": "16\nUNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE\nTO THE JNITER NATLONS\nor\nState Date sec. 3(E), Date\nMay 24,\n1961\nTO:\nThe President\nFROM:\nAdlai E. Stevenson art\nSUBJECT:\nMeetings with Khrushchev and De Gaulle.\nI.\nKHRUSHCHEV\nWhile you will not wish to avoid discussion of such specific\nquestions as disarmament, nuclear tests, Berlin, Laos and Cuba,\nI suggest that you concentrate if possible on the basic question\nwhich governs all of these -- the Soviet interpretation of\n\"peaceful coexistence\".\nFrom my talks with Khrushchev and others the essential\nelements of that interpretation appear to be\n1. An absolute taboo on Western intervention inside the\nCommunist Bloc and a free hand for the Soviets to do as they like\ninside that bloc.\n2. Unrestricted Communist aid to \"wars of liberation\" and\nCommunist or nationalist movements outside the Communist Bloc and\na free hand to go as far as they like in this respect, short of\nprovoking general war.\n3. The Soviet veto not only on international action inside\nthe Communist Bloc (inspection, etc.) and also on international\naction outside the Communist Bloc, (UN Secretariat, Congo).\nWhile Khrushchev will not concede any of the foregoing he\nmight be told that the West could not conceivably accept such a\npolicy or that \"peaceful coexistence\" could long exist under it.\nWhile we recognize that Communists cannot be expected to give up\npropagating Communist doctrine, are they sufficiently interested\nin \"peaceful coexistence\" to accept realistic limitations on\nmeans of propagation?\nSpecifically, can they accept the following limitations no\nmilitary action inside either bloc by the other, or in \"neutral\"\nstates by either, whether such action on large or small scale. If\nthey wish international disarmament, including the suspension of\nnuclear tests, they must accept inspection without veto.\nA"
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