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Eisenhower kept a close watch and a cool head. In stern and unequivocal language he warned Russia's Bulganin that any intervention by Russian troops in the Middle East war was "unthinkable"'; he added afterwards that any Russian move against Austria would be considered by the U.S. as "a grave threat to peace." Meanwhile he worked patiently to repair the physical and moral basis of the Western alliance, so as to confront the probing Russians with a united Western front. In a decisive speech on the crisis from the White House (see page 29), Eisenhower proclaimed...
...House seems to have dismissed the Russian offer out of hand, but the world and the American people expect sober consideration from our leaders." So spoke Candidate Adlai Stevenson one day last week after he had learned that the President had rejected a letter from Russia's Premier Bulganin backing Adlai's campaign proposals to stop H-bomb tests...
Next day Stevenson read the text of Bulganin's letter and the President's sizzling reply (TIME, Oct. 29), and he decided that Bulganin was too close to his coattails for comfort. "I share fully President Eisenhower's resentment at the manner and timing of Premier Bulganin's interference in the political affairs of the U.S.," he said, in a second statement. "This is not the first time the Russian leaders have said things related to our presidential election. Mr. Bulganin himself expressed the hope some time ago that Mr. Eisenhower, would run for reelection...
...also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement yesterday on the Bulganin-Eisenhower exchange, Stevenson sought to establish that Eisenhower is the Kremlin's choice in the elections. If so, why did Bulganin come to Stevenson's side on the H-bomb issue...
Unfortunately, the President has been eager to play their game and reply politically to a message at least technically diplomatic. The worst aspect of the entire interchange is that in squabbling with Bulganin to gain a political advantage, President Eisenhower has lost sight of the H-bomb test-radiation issue itself. In order to oppose what he approaches as the combined forces of Bulganin and Stevenson, he has set himself up in an immovable, inflexible position, without bothering to give a reasoned reply to their collective arguments...