Agreement to Talk

Behind guarded doors. Secretary of State Dulles and Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin sat down in Dulles' rose-mauve-carpeted office for half an hour this week to talk about a time, place and agenda for a conference on atomic questions.-The Dulles-Zarubin meeting was a fruit of President Eisenhower's U.N. speech proposing an atomic-material pool for peaceful uses. At first the Russians had attacked the speech; then, sniffing free-world approval of Ike's idea, they said they were willing to talk it over. Dulles suggested a preliminary exchange of views in Washington, and last week the Kremlin agreed. Two days later, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that this month "men and materials will begin moving to the Pacific proving grounds [for] weapons tests of all categories," i.e., fission and thermonuclear.

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