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...Parallel Thinking." Again and again he talked of security; again and again the West brought him back to the reunification of Germany. Molotov abandoned his "all-Europe" security plan and produced a new one based on a tactical error committed by Prime Minister Anthony Eden at the first summit meeting. Eden had tentatively proposed zones of controlled armed forces on either side of the present East-West German border-instead of on the eastern border of a reunited Germany, as the West now wants. Britain's Macmillan forcefully rejected both Molotov's proposal, and, by implication, Eden...
...acid test" of whether the spirit of Geneva marks a genuine change on the part of the Russians. But the Russians had all but declared in advance that they had no intention of settling anything at the second Geneva meeting. They had got what they wanted at the first Summit meeting-a finding, brought in not by the statesmen but by the public, that the world did not stand in danger of war. In effect, they had got "peace" merely by declaring it. They felt no need or compulsion to bargain further...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles correctly foresaw that the Communists would get short-term, tactical advantages from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva...
...sewer-born impetuosities have lost their quality of brash unexpectedness. Red Skelton, helped by Comedienne Nancy Walker, took off after that comedy staple, The $64,000 Question, with a skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes of his old form with a rousing, doubletalk version of Pagliacci. Neither Groucho Marx, flourishing his cigar and convivial sneer, nor Jimmy Durante, with his patented songs and spotlighted exit, saw any reason for changing the formulas that have kept them among...
...membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only one of the three major agenda items (disarmament, atoms-for-peace, charter revision) seemed destined to benefit in a practical way from "the Geneva spirit." That was President Eisenhower's proposal, endorsed by the Russians at the summit meeting, for a U.N. center for joint development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy...