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Soviet Premier Khrushchev rejected the West's proposal for a four-power foreign ministers' meeting on German reunification after talks with British PM Harold MacMillan in Moscow, insisting it be handled by the two German states and proposing a heads-of-government conference of WWII allies instead.
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By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, (AP) -- Soviet Premier Khrushchev, emerging from two days of talks with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, threw cold water yesterday on the West's plan for a four-power meeting on Germany.
Khrushchev told a political rally in the Kremlin that the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France cannot discuss German re-unification because "this is a question for the two German states themselves."
A four-power meeting at the foreign minister level, as suggested by the West, might increase instead of reduce international tension, Khrushchev declared.
He also repeated the Soviet proposal for a conference of heads of government of all these nations that waged war against Hitler in World War II to work out a treaty with Germany.
The Western Powers rejected this proposal in their recent notes calling for a four-power meeting on Germany at the foreign minister's level.
Khrushchev warned that any violation of the East German borders in the dispute over West Berlin would be considered an act of aggression against the Warsaw Pact powers.
While Khrushchev was speaking in the Kremlin, the visiting MacMillan was sightseeing.
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khrushchev rejected the west's four-power foreign ministers' meeting proposal on germany, repeated soviet counter-proposal for a heads-of-government conference, and warned that border violations would be aggression against warsaw pact.
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After two days of talks with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, Soviet Premier Khrushchev spoke at a Kremlin rally rejecting Western plans for a four-power meeting on German reunification, stating it is for the two German states, and proposed instead a conference of WWII Allied heads of government to negotiate a German treaty. He warned against East German border violations amid West Berlin disputes.