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...thank for their optimism is their own Government's perspicuity in having called a snap election this spring. Sir Anthony Eden need not by law have risked his newly-acquired office until October, 1956. But the talking points of existing prosperity and probable talks with Russia "at the summit" were too good to pass by. Besides, the Labour party was just at that time embarrassingly split by internal feuds. Its moderate wing, represented by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, had been driven rightwards by attacks from the Bevanites on the left. A party which failed to maintain the support...
...manufacture the hydrogen bomb. Fear of war among her people forced Labour to support the Government's decision to do both, thereby cancelling these questions as election issues. Still, the Socialists did pledge to urge an agreement halting H-bomb test explosions. Yet now that talks "at the summit" seem probable, even the bomb issues has withered. Moreover, although Attlee has been pressing for such talks "in season and out" for a number of years, the fact remains that it is the Eden Government which has finally achieved them...
...sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads of governments. Instead, it will be the first of what may be a series of foreign-minister conferences, cluttered in this case by the presence of four distinguished spectators...
...Summit Conference is only a symbol that nations are willing to search for solutions by peaceful means. The moment that chiefs of state cease being symbols and start to encroach upon the responsibilities of professional diplomats, effective diplomacy breaks down. Alternatives become rigid platforms from which there is no retreat with honor. The normal process of give and take is impossible...
...present time, a top-level meeting would be extremely useful if it could separate the insignificant, petty disputes from those which cause deep international division. For this purpose, only a few days of summit discussion are necessary. Any attempt to reach binding decisions would only emphasize present divisions. The best that can come from a big-four conference is an atmosphere a little more mellow for the quiet, serious business of conventional diplomacy that follows...