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...have believed that the U.S. suffered a stunning cold war defeat last week. The U.S., said the quidnuncs, had alienated "world opinion" by sending its troops into Lebanon. And Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had "scored a great propaganda victory" by offering to come to New York for a summit conference at the United Nations...
...facts were something else: 1) the proposal of a heads-of-states meeting under the auspices of the U.N. was a Western proposal, in answer to Khrushchev's wild offer of a Big-Five summit meeting in Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last...
There was much more to be done in the attempt to achieve stability in the Middle East-more than either force or summit conference could accomplish. But the overriding fact was that, largely because the imminent danger of Lebanon and Jordan had been postponed, the pundits, commentators and statesmen were afforded the luxury of second guessing and peaceful discussion...
...Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with a transatlantic telephone call to Dwight Eisenhower...