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Convinced that the Russians would not and the Laotians could not stop the Red rebels, Kennedy appealed to the British to present a joint diplomatic front. London agreed. At midweek in Moscow, Britain's dapper Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts presented a joint Anglo-U.S. offer to the Kremlin. If the Russians would order a ceasefire, then the West would agree to convene the ineffectual three-nation International Control Commission for Laos -consisting of Canada, India and Communist Poland-to certify the truce. Furthermore, the West was willing to scuttle the present pro-Western Laotian government in favor...
Conspicuously missing was a Western demand that the Russians halt their airdrops to Laos. Conspicuously present was an Anglo-U.S. offer to submit to the incessant Soviet demand to call a conference of 14 nations, including Red China, to seal the fate of Laos. The Russians said blandly that they would study the offer, but the invasion picked up strength...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...
...With it now clearly established that our country does not accord prior rights to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, you can expect to find Catholics turning up in all sorts of places where, formerly, nursing real or partially imagined resentments, they never quite felt at home: on all the citizens' committees that heretofore they frequently seemed to shun-committees to clear slums, organize municipal orchestras, build new wings on public libraries, raise money for the Red Cross, and all the rest. We shall be surprised if, from now on, Catholics don't take a more active and constructive interest...
...author, Wilfrid Sheed, 30, an Anglo-American-Australian (and son of U.S. Roman Catholic Publisher Frank Sheed), has written a quiet, sound little story, but probably one destined to make a punctuation mark in the long catalogue of those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The book denotes a haunting change since Max Beerbohm's glittering undergraduate duke, orator, wit, scholar and élégant set Zuleika Dobson and the Isis on fire, or even since Waugh's Lord Sebastian Flyte lugged his Teddy-bear to the barber...