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• So Thor will be operational in June—which happens to be the time decreed by the Soviet Union for a summit meeting. If Mr. Dulles holds firm, and he has been at his best these past few weeks, the Summiteers will have to do without U.S. representation. If they get together in the usual Swiss setting, mightn’titbean appropriate gesture, just to show that the U.S. is there in spirit, to lob a Thor onto the grass of the city park, say from a base in Madrid? Filled with candy and toys for the children of Geneva?

• In a three-thousand-word interview the other day, John Foster Dulles had the honesty—and the intelligence—to brand the Soviet request for a “presummit” meeting of foreign ministers as a “fraud.” We have been pinching ourselves ever since, not only because a Secretary of State has had the wit to say the obvious, but because he seems to be getting a good press for it. If this sort of thing continues national review will gladly go out of business.

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• So Thor will be operational in June—which happens to be the time decreed by the Soviet Union for a summit meeting. If Mr. Dulles holds firm, and he has been at his best these past few weeks, the Summiteers will have to do without U.S. representation. If they get together in the usual Swiss setting, mightn’titbean appropriate gesture, just to show that the U.S. is there in spirit, to lob a Thor onto the grass of the city park, say from a base in Madrid? Filled with candy and toys for the children of Geneva?

• In a three-thousand-word interview the other day, John Foster Dulles had the honesty—and the intelligence—to brand the Soviet request for a “presummit” meeting of foreign ministers as a “fraud.” We have been pinching ourselves ever since, not only because a Secretary of State has had the wit to say the obvious, but because he seems to be getting a good press for it. If this sort of thing continues national review will gladly go out of business.