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...delivered a State of the Union message that marked not the least attempt to shrug off blame for past letdowns, spoke candidly but without hand-wringing about the present, mapped a hard line for future progress. This week he sent off a letter to the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Bulganin, thus stepped into a world scene that had become a mishmash of creeping neutralism and phony Communist peace propaganda, and managed both to seize the peace initiative and restore the perspective of the cold...
...Intrinsic Need. The occasion for the President's diplomatic move was a letter from the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, received just before the NATO meeting last month, renewing Communist propaganda demands for a parley at the summit. "I am ready," wrote Dwight Eisenhower this week, "to meet with the Soviet leaders. [But] these complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by foreign ministers." This is necessary, the President emphasized, to ensure that a summit parley might, "in fact, hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world...
Thus, as he did last week in his State of the Union message, the President moved vigorously to restore a measure of the U.S.'s pre-Sputnik confidence-without its pre-Sputnik complacency. And thus, in his letter to Bulganin, he redefined the meaning of the world competition and lifted the free world's faith in its cause. At home and abroad, the President moved notably in the second week of the new year to give those who called for it a touch of the style of command he once summed up: "Only strength can cooperate; weakness...
Soviet Premier Bulganin, he said, should "jump at this chance" to ease international tensions before control of new space weapons becomes impossible...
...certainly hope from the depths of my heart," Dulles said, "that the emphasis President Eisenhower put on this in his letter--to Bulganin last Sunday--will find a response by Bulganin...