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CONSTANCE MACMILLAN...
...United Nations, had company for lunch at Wave Hill, his handsome Hudson River residence in Riverdale. just north of Manhattan. Gathered under fragrantly flowering linden trees one balmy day last week were three of the free world's shapers of foreign policy: Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
Puzzling Problems. The Briton and the Frenchman had come to the U.S. for the U.N.'s tenth anniversary ceremonies in San Francisco, but before the birthday party, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay had to discuss a puzzling problem in world diplomacy: the true reason for the Communists' sudden switch from cold-warriors to peace-shouters. Standing in Sir Pierson's paneled library. Dulles gave the U.S. evaluation of what had caused the Kremlin to accept an Austrian treaty that was less favorable than the one it had rejected out of hand a year before...
Firm Ground Rules. Pinay and Macmillan had no serious quarrel with Dulles' evaluation of the situation and his program to test Russian sincerity. In the study there was an air of confidence that had been missing from Western councils since World War II. The three men drew up a list of ground rules for the Big Four conference at Geneva-a list that they will present to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in San Francisco this week...
Western diplomats took wing too. Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's Antoine Pinay headed for New York for pre-summit consultations. Chancellor Adenauer took off in a new Lufthansa plane and a scheduled lunch with Eisenhower. They now had something fresh to talk about...