t the Americans involved
would go as "private citizens" and would express their own views.

_The New York Times'_ news story on Dr. Mosely's announcement (May 13,
1961) read:

"The importance attached by the Soviet Union to the meeting appears
to be suggested by the fact that the Soviet group will include
three members of the communist party's Central Committee ... and
one candidate member of that body....

"The meeting, to be held in the town of Nizhnyaya Oreanda, in the
Crimea, will follow the pattern of a similar unofficial meeting,
in which many of the same persons participated, at Dartmouth
College last fall. The meetings will take place in private and
there are no plans to issue an agreed statement on the subjects
discussed....

"The topics to be discussed include disarmament and the
guaranteeing of ... international peace, the role of the United
Nations in strengthening international security, the role of
advanced nations in aiding under-developed countries, and the
prospects for peaceful and improving Soviet-United States
relations.

"The Dartmouth conference last fall and the scheduled Crimean
conference originated from a suggestion made by Norman Cousins,
editor of _The Saturday Review_ and co-chairman of the American
group going to the Crimea, when he visited the Soviet Union a year
and a half ago....

"Mr. Cousins and Dr. Mosely formed a small American group early
last year to organize the conferences. It received financial
support from the Ford Foundation for the Dartmouth conference and
for travel costs to the Crimean meeting. This group selected the
American representatives for the two meetings.

"Among those who participated in the Dartmouth conference were
several who have since taken high posts in the Kennedy
Administration, including Dr. Walt W. Rostow, now an assistant to
President Kennedy, and George F. Kennan; now United States
Ambassador to Yugoslavia...."

* * * * *

The head of the Soviet delegation to the meeting in the Soviet Union,
May 22, 1961, was Alekesander Y. Korneichuk, a close personal friend of
Khrushchev. The American citizens scheduled to attend included besides
Dr. Mosely and Mr. Cousins:

_Marian Anderson_, the singer; _Dean Erwin N. Griswold_, of the Harvard
Law School; _Gabriel Haug