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...complained a French official. "He doesn't know France, doesn't speak French, probably doesn't even drink wine."*) Even in NATO capitals where there is growing acceptance of Nixon's ability, it was an article of faith that a summit conference without Ike would lose much of its impact. Said a German Foreign Office spokesman: "You cannot delegate prestige...
...fact was that, though they fully expected useful military and technological decisions to come out of the summit meeting, such decisions seemed to Europeans of secondary importance. "Since Suez," said one Londoner last week, "the whole Western alliance has been hungry for stronger leadership-a leadership that can come only from...
...above all, Western Europe hoped that the summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...
...blow to American prestige came in the final stage of buildup for the Allied summit conference at Paris, where American leadership faces severe tests...
...feat was routine for the Patriot Ledger (circ. 44,349), which has its own U.N. correspondent, staffed the Olympic Games in Australia, and sent its own reporter to cover the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva. But the fast footwork of Editor John R. Herbert and staff also typified the vitality of middle-sized dailies across the nation in a David-Goliath competitive struggle that is fast transforming the U.S. press...