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...East, the communiqué warned Red China that the U.S. and Britain "were firmly united ... to deter and prevent aggressive expansion by force or subversion." Actually, as the course of the talks again made clear, Eden does not support the U.S. view that a Communist attack on Quemoy and Matsu could constitute aggression. Then the communiqué noted that the allied embargo on strategic trade with Red China "should be reviewed now and periodically ... in the light of changing conditions." During the talks Eden pressed the U.S. to let into Red China the strategic goods that it now lets into...
...When Eden brought up the British desire to have Red China seated in the U.N. this year, the President told him forcefully that any British move in that direction would bring on agitation in the U.S. for a withdrawal from the U.N. On the Middle East, the communiqué warned the Arab states and Israel not to use "force or the threat of force ... to violate the frontier or armistice lines." The communiqué warned that the U.S. and Britain had "made arrangements for joint discussions as to the nature of the action we should take in such an event...
...Sort of Mixing Up." Eden next moved to achieve one of his big objectives: to establish himself in U.S. eyes as the leader of a new-style British Commonwealth. He took himself off to Capitol Hill where he addressed-separately -the Senate and the House of Representatives. Eden stressed effectively that Britain's share of defense costs almost matched that of the U.S. "in proportion to our size." He drew attention to the current British concept of imperialism: "In many territories of the Commonwealth constitutional progress has reached, or is approaching, the last stage before their peoples assume responsibility...
...nationwide TV hookup, Eden tried to allay U.S. misgivings about the coming visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London. He said: "If you have confidence in yourself, if you believe in your own convictions, if you trust your own faith, you shouldn't be afraid to meet, to argue with others...
Before heading northward to Canada on his way home, Eden summed up: "We covered, I think, pretty well every imaginable topic while we went through these three days of discussion. We found a wider measure of agreement on them than I had expected when we arrived here ... I don't think we can have too much of this sort of mixing up, and I am sure it is an advantage . . ." He added a personal note: "These have been the most encouraging three days I have spent among you in Washington -and I have been on many journeys...