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...Four conference in Geneva last July, Dwight Eisenhower impressed the world with the passionate sincerity of his will for peace. Russian obduracy and the passage of time have dimmed in the public mind the hope for disarmament raised at Geneva by Ike's dramatic aerial inspection proposal, but Ike himself has never lost the sense of urgency that he then showed. Ever since, he has pressured his staff to "get something started on disarmament in as many ways as possible," and in recent weeks he has worked late into the evenings, studying staff papers on disarmament and discussing their...
Motives aside, Eisenhower as President has shown that when he does take personal control over foreign affairs, his creative leadership is apparent. The Atoms-for-Peace plan, the Geneva Conference, and the scheme for mutual aerial inspection have all shown that the President when he chooses, is his own best Secretary of State. Indeed, at one critical point, Eisenhower had to side-step both the Vice President and Foster Dulles to prevent U.S. troops from fighting a hopeless defense of Indo-china...
Mention of Geneva brought Khrushchev to Eisenhower's dramatic proposal for an exchange of military blueprints and unhindered aerial photography. Never was Russia's rejection made more emphatic. Said Khrushchev: "Flights over territories and aerial photography can only fan war passions and war psychosis . . . This actually is a means used for the purpose of finding out more about the forces of another country...
...Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin' Jim jovially: "But I reserve the right to inspect them Jacksonville runways at any time...
...President's aerial inspection plan and his exchange of blueprints proposal are perhaps the most startling, daring, and imaginative ideas to come out of the Eisenhower administration. But the United States hasn't begun to squeeze the psychological value out of them that is there...