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Britain of late has been playing the international game with a great show of practicality. The present national temper -or at least the mood of press and politicians-deplores the expression of principle in politics. When last week's conference between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Eden produced the Washington Declaration (see next page), politically sophisticated Britons assumed that the text was the work of moralizing Americans. A British Foreign Office official read it. and explained that the declaration was addressed to Asians and Africans: "A simple reminder for simple-minded people." Journalist Randolph Churchill called it "pompous...
More and more leaders of governments show themselves in foreign capitals these days. Visits like that of Britain's Sir Anthony Eden to Washington this week have two kinds of meaning-practical and symbolic. Main item on the practical agenda of the Eden visit is to reach U.S.British agreement on some world trouble spots, especially on the Communist threat to the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 16). But this effort will probably be sterile unless the talks are permeated by the symbolic meaning of Eden in Washington. Diplomatist George Kennan to the contrary, international relations are not mere projections...
British-U.S. friendship rests on more than a community of language and a similarity of power interests. Its main base is a shared belief in the pursuit of justice-everywhere. The occasion of Eden's visit is a time to remember how much idealism has influenced the course of British policy even in the Empire's supposedly cynical past, and how fleeting and superficial was the isolationist phase of U.S. history...
...Anthony Eden (Thurs. 11:15 p.m., all networks...
...East of Eden (Warner...