Soviets Try to Seat Germany As Foreign Ministers Open Meeting; Khrushchev Pushes Summit Talks

GENEVA, May 11--The Soviet Union and the Big Three Western foreign ministers plunged into cold war negotiations tonight after colliding head-on over German participation. The West beat back a belated Soviet attempt to seat Communist East Germany as a full negotiator.

The U.S., Soviet, British, and French ministers sat down at 5:55 p.m. in the ornate Council Room of the Palace of Nations for the first big-power parley since 1955.

This was about 2 1/2 hours after the scheduled opening of their momentous negotiations on Berlin, the future of Germany, and European security. The formal meeting lasted an hour.

In a chaotic prelude, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and the Big Three Ministers wrangled over the 11th-hour attempt to bring East Germany to the conference table.

Gromyko was making an obvious move to build up prestige for the East German Communist regime.

The next session was put down for 3:50 p.m. Tuesday.

Summit to Take Place

MOSCOW, May 11--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev says an East-West summit conference will be held even if there is no great progress in settling cold war issues at the Geneva foreign ministers' conference.

Khrushchev told a rally at Kiev today that whether there are positive results at Geneva or not, a meeting of the Big Four heads of government will take place. His remarks were distributed Tuesday by the official news agency Tass and broadcast by Moscow radio.