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...both the nation and the world, 1955 may well be known as the year of the Great Cure-All. As people look away from the Government's short-lived promises of Salk vaccine for all, they turn now to another panacea--the Conference at the Summit. But amid all the talk of top-level meetings as medicine for the world's political ills, a most important fact has been only lightly brushed over: the Russians have not yet accepted Western invitations to confer...
Secretary Dulles observed that he was not "adamant" against four-power talks, now that West Germany was safely riveted into the Western alliance. But was a meeting at the summit either safe or desirable? In the past, he pointed out, such meetings had led to "slipshod" work (he was obviously thinking of Yalta), and the Russians had taken advantage of "general agreements" only to cause trouble later. It would be a terrible mistake, he argued, to arrange a meeting of the chiefs of state and expect them to make decisions on substantive issues in a matter of a few days...
Groundwork. With Russia's Bulganin expressing "a favorable attitude," the Western allies set to work to concert their policies. Steps had to be painstakingly hewn out of the ice before the ascent to the summit could be made. The seven Western European Union nations met to put in motion the new organization designed to keep a watchful eye over West Germany's proposed 500,000-man army...
...Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above all, Eden was able to kick off his campaign with a promise of the long-awaited "parley at the summit." "If the Tories cannot win this election," said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, "then they can never...
...parley at the summit put a crimp in Labor's attempt to show themselves more appalled than the Tories by the H-bomb...