THE WORLD VIEWS THE us FREDA UTLEY British Comments on American Politics To say that there are definite signs of a reversal of positions between Britain and the United States concerning Western policy toward Russia would be going too far. But the reactions in the British press to the fiasco of the Geneva Conference seem to have been stronger than in America. Perhaps this is due mainly to the originally greater expectations in Europe. In any case it is strange to find a correspond- ent of the Liberal Ma.ncheste-r Guard- ian stating that “the spirit of Geneva, credited to President Eisenhower, threatens to be as general and possibly as dangerous as the wartime spirit of Teheran”; and also commenting with dismay upon the false hopes in Amer- ica of a change in Soviet policy, or of the USSR “going democratic.”
D. W. Brogan, the Oxford Don whose books about America are popular on both sides of the Atlantic, is now among us, and in his report from which I have just quoted, he goes on to make the following surprising but very pos- sibly correct prediction about next year’s election campaign:
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