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Soon after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stepped off the plane at London Airport, he was whisked off to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. Over the brandy, Prime Minister Churchill launched into the subject now dearest to his stout old heart: a "parley at the summit." But Dulles was expecting the lecture, and came determined to withstand it. In the words of one dinner guest, Dulles "flatly rejected" the P.M.'s proposal...
Anthony Eden dutifully introduced his boss's "parley at the summit" proposal, but far from agreeing to meet with Malenkov in Moscow, the ministers settled only on a new attempt to get Molotov to Switzerland. In separate but identical notes to Russia, they brushed aside Russia's wordily evasive request for a conference of the Big Four and Red China, and suggested again that Molotov sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss a final peace settlement for Germany and Austria. Time and place: Nov. 9, in Lugano. They were all agreed that Russia is afraid...
Churchill had been bitterly disappointed because his own attempt to find a clear-cut solution-in a Big Four "parley at the summit"-had been cold-shouldered by the U.S. and France, stonily ignored by the Soviet Union. It had even been labeled "mischievous" by the London Economist. But Sir Winston would no more give up his project than he would part with the Empire. "I asked for very little," he told the Tories. "I held out no exciting hopes about Russia. I thought that friendly, informal, personal talks between the leading figures . . . might do good and could not easily...
...vote-getting possibilities of this broad public conviction form an irresistible temptation to British politicians. Aneurin Bevan was the first to recognize them; Churchill, his mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...