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Eisenhower As Broker

The paper curtain drawn over the quarrels of the Atlantic powers by journalistic inattentiveness and a foolish decision somewhere in the Government to minimize differences should not obscure the profound vexation with which the President views these differences. Well he should. For what the deserved failure of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s “honest brokerage” and the hardening of the Paris-Bonn axis portend is a genuine rift in Atlantic solidarity as the Western foreign ministers prepare to concert an Atlantic position at Paris on April 29 in advance of the meeting at Geneva on May 11 with Nikita S. Khrushchev’s man.

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Eisenhower As Broker

The paper curtain drawn over the quarrels of the Atlantic powers by journalistic inattentiveness and a foolish decision somewhere in the Government to minimize differences should not obscure the profound vexation with which the President views these differences. Well he should. For what the deserved failure of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s “honest brokerage” and the hardening of the Paris-Bonn axis portend is a genuine rift in Atlantic solidarity as the Western foreign ministers prepare to concert an Atlantic position at Paris on April 29 in advance of the meeting at Geneva on May 11 with Nikita S. Khrushchev’s man.