COLD WAR THE NONSIGNERS IN WASHINGTON THE AMBASSADORS WERE USHERED INTO A 
FLOODLIT ANTEROOM AND WELCOMED BY VIRGINIA DUKE, A CHIC STATE DEPARTMENT 
EMPLOYEE WITH GREYING HAIR, WHO BEARS THE TITLE OF TREATY DEPOSITORY 
OFFICER . IN MOSCOW A VARIETY OF FOREIGN OFFICE TYPES USHERED 
THE DIPLOMATS INTO A DAZZLING GOLD-AND-WHITE MARBLE ROOM IN THE SPIRIDONOVKA 
PALACE . IN BOTH CITIES, AND IN LONDON AS WELL, THE 
EMISSARIES OF NATION AFTER NATION LINED UP TO SIGN THE NUCLEAR 
TEST BAN TREATY . EVENTUALLY, BY STATE DEPARTMENT ESTIMATE, THERE WILL 
BE MORE THAN 100 SIGNATORIES . KHRUSHCHEV CALLED IT " A 
REFERENDUM ON ALL CONTINENTS . " INEVITABLY, THE WORLD'S ATTENTION FOCUSED 
ON THE NONSIGNERS . CHIEF AMONG THEM IS, OF COURSE, RED 
CHINA . HEIGHTENING THEIR BITTER IDEOLOGICAL QUARREL WITH MOSCOW, THE CHINESE 
CHARGED THAT FOUR YEARS AGO NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV HAD WELSHED ON A 
PROMISE TO HELP THEM MAKE ATOMIC BOMBS BECAUSE HE WANTED TO 
PRESENT " A GIFT " TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ON THE EVE 
OF THE CAMP DAVID TALKS . IN A BITTER RADIO ATTACK, 
THE CHINESE SAID THAT THE " REAL AIM OF THE SOVIET 
LEADERS " IN NEGOTIATING THE TEST BAN " IS TO COMPROMISE 
WITH THE U.S . IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN A MONOPOLY OF 
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND LORD IT OVER THE SOCIALIST CAMP . " 
PEKING ADDED THAT KHRUSHCHEV HAD COMMITTED AN ACT OF " BETRAYAL 
" RESULTING IN " OPEN CAPITULATION BY THE SOVIET LEADERS TO 
U.S . IMPERIALISM . " THE SLOW ONES . CHINA'S ANTITREATY 
STAND WAS BACKED BY AVOWEDLY PRO-PEKING ALBANIA, NORTH KOREA AND NORTH 
VIET NAM . SO FAR, THESE ARE THE ONLY COUNTRIES THAT 
HAVE FORMALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL NOT SIGN . BUT CHARY 
OF ANGERING THE CHINESE, OTHER ASIAN NATIONS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO 
INDICATE THEIR APPROVAL OF THE PACT . THEY INCLUDE NEPAL, WHICH 
LIES IN AN EXPOSED POSITION IN CHINA'S BORDER CONFLICT WITH INDIA 
; CEYLON AND CAMBODIA, BOTH LEFTWING " NEUTRALS " ; AND 
INDONESIA, WHICH IS HOPEFUL OF CHINESE SUPPORT IN ANY FUTURE ACTION 
AGAINST THE SOON-TO-BE-BORN MALAYSIAN FEDERATION . TO MOSCOW'S CONSTERNATION, THE ONLY 
COMMUNIST NATION THAT HAS NOT YET SPOKEN OUT ONE WAY OR 
THE OTHER IN THE WORLDWIDE " REFERENDUM " IS CUBA . 
DESPITE THE $1,000,000 A DAY THAT RUSSIA IS POURING INTO HIS 
ISLAND COMMUNE, FIDEL CASTRO IS STILL ANGRY OVER KHRUSHCHEV'S WITHDRAWAL OF 
SOVIET ROCKETS LAST FALL . TRYING TO MAKE THE SOVIET LEADER 
SWEAT, CASTRO IS OBVIOUSLY ATTEMPTING TO BOOST HIS PRICE FOR SUPPORTING 
RUSSIA IN ITS STRUGGLE WITH THE CHINESE . BUT THERE IS 
LITTLE DOUBT THAT CUBA WILL ULTIMATELY SIGN THE TREATY, FOR CASTRO 
NEEDS RUSSIA TO BUY HIS 3,800,000-TON SUGAR CROP AND TO CONTINUE 
STEADY TRANSFUSION OF ECONOMIC AID . THE LONELY ONES . THE 
SOLE NONSIGNER IN THE WESTERN CAMP IS FRANCE . EVEN FRANCO 
SPAIN, THE ONLY WESTERN COUNTRY WHICH DOES NOT HAVE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS 
WITH MOSCOW, HAS SIGNED THE TREATY, LEAVING FRANCE ISOLATED FROM ALL 
ITS CONTINENTAL NEIGHBORS . MOST GALLING TO CHARLES DE GAULLE WAS 
WEST GERMANY'S DECISION TO SIGN THE PACT AFTER A REASSURING PITCH 
IN BONN BY U.S . SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK . 
BONN'S ACTION WAS DOUBLY UPSETTING TO FRANCE, FOR IT FOLLOWED AN 
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT GERMANY AND THE U.S . WILL COOPERATE IN THE 
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BATTLE TANK (TIME, AUG . 16) ; 
JUST THREE MONTHS AGO, PARIS WAS UNABLE TO REACH AN AGREEMENT 
WITH THE GERMANS ON A SIMILAR PROJECT . BOTH BONN DECISIONS 
RAISED THE QUESTION OF JUST HOW MUCH THE FRANCO-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP TREATY 
IS WORTH, AND BROUGHT INTO THE OPEN THE FACT THAT WEST 
GERMANY STILL LOOKS TO THE U.S . AND NOT TO FRANCE 
FOR LEADERSHIP . STUBBORNLY FRANCE PREPARED FOR ANOTHER ATOMIC TEST IN 
THE SAHARA, BUT DE GAULLE'S ASPIRATIONS TO FRENCH LEADERSHIP OF EUROPE 
WERE ACIDLY DEMOLISHED BY PARIS' LE FIGARO . " IF KHRUSHCHEV 
REALLY BECOMES DISTURBED BY THE CAMPAIGN CONDUCTED AGAINST HIM BY CHINA, 
" SAID THE PAPER, " AND IF HE WANTS TO HAVE 
A CERTAINTY OF PEACE ON HIS WESTERN FRONT, THEN HE WILL 
NOT COME TO SEEK AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE, WHICH IS NEGLIGIBLE IN 
HIS EYES, EVEN WITH ATOMIC WEAPONS, BUT WITH THE U.S., WHOSE 
INFLUENCE AND POWER ARE ONE HUNDRED TIMES SUPERIOR . THIS WAS 
PROVED AT THE RECENT CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW, WHERE WE SHONE BY 
OUR ABSENCE . 