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...ECONOMIST: THERE are two awkward facts about JL the proposal. Yearning for the summit has been, and still is, embarrassing for allied unity. The second is that since the death of Stalin it has been meaningless. Without taking at its face value all that the Russians say about collective leadership, it is still obvious that in Moscow now there is no "highest level." The mystical belief that a Churchill-Malenkov meeting could dissolve the solid differences that an Eden-Molotov meeting would merely register has lost all content today when the prospect is an Eden-Bulganin or Attlee-Bulganin meeting...
Thus, in a joint note to the Kremlin, the U.S. and its allies yielded to the pressure that had been abuilding in hearts everywhere (but mostly in Europe) since the day two years ago when Winston Churchill, from the summit of his own giant prestige, had suggested that a "parley at the summit" might mean a "generation of peace...
...Premier, but not undisputed boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
...Russians have themselves become the enemy, and so the summit meeting of ten years later will be nearer in spirit to Panmunjom than to Yalta or Potsdam, its chief compulsion a mutual weariness of danger. On the West's summits this week, there was little more than a feeling that it was worth...
...before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce it on a TV broadcast in midweek...