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...parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before any summit meeting, the Kremlin set about making mileage with the appeasement-minded by charging that the U.S. "attitude on peace" was "negative...
Despite the letdown at the end, the picture is well worth seeing for the buildup that precedes it. Mankiewicz is an intelligent director, and he keeps his actors on the jump and his story on the move. Moreover, for Americans, the picture carries a moral they will long have need to ponder: if it is more blessed to give than to receive, it is also a damned sight more difficult...
...rebuttal, DeGuglielmo said he had not referred to a crime wave, but merely to a letdown in law enforcement. He criticized Sullivan, whose motion for 15 more policemen had just been passed and who now said the police could adequately handle the situation. "That's the kind of reasoning I have to put up with in this Council," he said...
...when the President met the press last week for the first time in eleven weeks, his performance was something of a letdown. He knew his subjects, and his demeanor and clarity of character gave strength to the reasonableness of his answers-but this reasonableness, laid down in cold print, often sounded like weakness and an open invitation to his opponents to walk all over Dwight Eisenhower and his programs...
...Beyond that, he is disturbed by the personal criticism and by the fact that some of his decisions have turned out worse than others, but he is not disturbed by the central attack against his evaluation of Communism. He is convinced that meaningless summit parleys tend to produce a letdown in the free world's sense of urgency. He is convinced that his policy toward the Kremlin, far from being "rigid" and "negative," is actually "flexible" and "positive," because it is based on the human aspirations and human drives of man's quest for freedom...