Show i By DENNIS WHITE President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev will meet in Austria's fabled June 2 and The White House has labeled this momentous meeting a to know each other between Kennedy and Obviously this is to give the two parties a chance to size one another up or at least we would hope that is all that it is intended to CONFERENCES at the summit level seldom accomplish anything of real Exceptions might be the conferences held between and Stalin during World War The success of post World War II summit conferences have proven to be of Miff Wm little es-Kl since jP they have aroused the hopes and as- of the general p u b 1 i c j and more often g dismal Dennis White In the opinion of most experienced diplomats conferences between heads of state seldom accomplish their pre-set goals and most often hinder real negotiations on the ambassadorial The glare of intensive publicity and news reporting lend a circus quality to summit The personal diplomacy of while exceedingly popular with the public of the rendered if any service to the cause of settling of the cold THE TASK of according to professor of political science at the University of is Diplomacy must determine its objectives in the light of the power actually and potentially available for the pursuit of these Diplomacy must assess the objectives of other nations and the power actually and potentially available for the pursuit of these Diplomacy must determine to what extent these different objectives are compatible with each Diplomacy must employ the means suited to the pursuit of its ASSUMING this to be how can summit conferences adequately fulfill this Heads of state cannot be prepared to devote their whole energies to carrying out the proper evaluations of the four basic tasks of diplomacy nor can they be expected to carry out the functions of The expectation generated by summit conferences and the quent let-down after everyone has agreed once again that peace and prosperity and co-existences is to be the new world order is not worth the effort and We wish Kennedy but we cannot bring ourselves to be hopeful or expectant that agreement will be reached this June or for a good long |