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These are words which many an impulsive householder off on vacation has lived to regret. Ever since Sir Anthony Eden, in the rosy aftermath of the Summit Conference at Geneva last July, issued such an invitation to Soviet Bigwigs Khrushchev and Bulganin, the chill British air has been filled with regrets and forebodings. A powerful faction in the Tory Party, led by Lord Salisbury, Eden's own longtime guide and mentor, was against the idea almost from the beginning. Others joined in after Khrush and Bulgy made their circus tour of India and Burma, spraying gratuitous insults at Britain...
...Eden himself hankered for a chance to practice his favorite form of democracy, frank man-to-man chats with one's adversaries, free from publicity and protocol. He wanted to remind K. & B. that Middle East oil is now Britain's lifeline, and a war there could not be localized-because 'Britain would enter "it. "He wanted'-to as sure them that the Western alliance can not be splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much...
...Rather unusual sort of way to do business," replied Anthony Eden in the House of Commons-but he refused to change his plans. For a moment the Russians themselves thought of calling off the visit. Then they thought better of it: after all, they would be able to find plenty of chances to crash through to the public...
...space of two months, the British attitude has perceptibly hardened. Government spokesmen talk gravely of how essential Middle East oil is to Britain's very existence. Crisis phrases-such as "No appeasement"-leap from leader writers' typewriters. Though Sir Anthony Eden says nothing publicly, the government's tough line on Cyprus-the airborne dispatch of two battalions of paratroopers, the defiance of world opinion in exiling Archbishop Makarios-looks beyond Cyprus itself. Britain wants to be ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready...
Street or Chequers [Anthony Eden's official residences] be able to neutralize the cold, calculating and implacable exploitation of human rights on which the whole Soviet technique for world domination is based? ... It would be just as practicable to invite two professional ladies from Paris to attend Roedean [England's most select girls' school] in the hope that they would marry archdeacons and live in respectability for the rest of their lives...