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...could start by a solemn pact of nonaggression." Of all the innumerable Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...
...series of programs facilitated by recent Washington discussions between Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin and William S. B. Lacey, State Department officer in charge of East-West cultural relations. These discussions have resulted in the lowering of several barriers to cultural exchanges between the United States and the U.S.S.R., but this program is the first to be definitely announced...
...scared to speak, our allies are so scared that they are all speaking at once. Prime Minister Mac-millan's recent suggestion of an East-West non-agression pact is tangible evidence that the glow of confidence and unity of purpose permeating the NATO meeting was artificial and ephemeral. In itself, Macmillan's idea is harmless and could even prove worthwhile if it stimulates eventual top-level disarmament discussion...
...subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would be the eastern border of a reunified Germany, i.e., the present East German border with Poland. Russia, having no intention of reunifying Germany, countered with a proposal for a 500-mile demilitarized zone on either side of the present East-West German border-which would drive U.S. and British troops off the Continent...
Burma. U Nu, a true neutral in East-West affairs, has no illusions about Communists at home. His army has killed thousands of Communist insurgents in nine years' fighting, and recently stepped-up campaigns have resulted in mass surrender of rebels. Citizens may now travel, safe from guerrilla raids, in all but the most mountainous parts of the country. Strapped for foreign exchange as a result of a slump in rice exports and now-regretted barter deals with Communist countries, Burma has lately made some gains with its economic expansion program, though it still suffers direly from severe inflation...