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...Soviet .Union's Marshal Bulganin fired off his 15-page let's-be-reasonable letters to the NATO leaders last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) to meet another logical, overriding need: to head off any new NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer...
...Eagerness. In the tumble of vague plans and great expectations that had been thrown into the summit hopper, there was one clear and urgent need-the U.S. need for IRBM bases in Europe to counter Russia's missile potential, its threat to the U.S. and to U.S. retaliatory power. But many of the NATO allies were far from eager to accept the U.S. offer of missiles for bases. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, in a quick swing through Europe's capitals, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of preconference meetings in Paris, had quickly learned...
Schemes & Dreams. Norstad's report, which went to all NATO members more than two months ago, is the basis of U.S. military proposals for next week's summit conference. With the Sputnik, the establishment of IRBM bases in Europe has taken on an added significance for the U.S., as a necessary counter to the Soviet missile threat to Turkey, Europe and Britain, to say nothing of its ICBM threat to North America. Though final arrangements will be left for later negotiation (since the U.S. does not yet have an operational IRBM), the U.S. will offer missiles...
...Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White (TIME, Nov. 25) served public notice that the Strategic Air Command is firmly and officially in the ballistic-missile business. The Air Force has decided, said General White, to shift "responsibility for the initial operational capability phase of both the IRBM and ICBM programs" from the Air Research and Development Command...
...present hydra-headed system produces innumerable delays in production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard. In another reversal or at least confusion of policies, the Navy and presumably the Administration gave yesterday's launching all possible publicity, while previous experiments...