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Into John Foster Dulles' fifth-floor office in the State Department, and onto the Dulles carpet, walked Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen. Preceding Stassen was a sheaf of crackling cables from U.S. embassies in Western Europe. Stassen, the complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...course of discussing technical questions, Stassen had handed Zorin an informal working paper which detailed a highly tentative U.S. proposal for setting up zones of aerial inspection, one of which included Western Europe. When British and French diplomats-to say nothing of the apprehensive West Germans-heard of this, they were quick to file complaints...
...same time, the size and shape of the Stassen problem symbolized something special about the U.N.-sponsored disarmament talks now going on in London. Disarmament, as a subject of debate, appears now a little down out of the clouds and more in the realm of political give and take. And in this atmosphere it will have the best chance to date of proving whatever promise it may have. If Western European governments were edgy about Stassen's private meetings with Zorin, they stood firm and tough in the face of Russian-inspired propaganda on the horrors...
...Foreign Service) while receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Over and above all else, the President was fretting about two items of substance: 1) the future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with U.S. allies over Harold Stassen's clumsy disarmament negotiations, which had provoked beyond ignoring the kind of family fight that Ike hates most. Ike's crowded schedule may have thrown him off his diet; the most popular theory, mentioned by John Foster Dulles, was that it was the blueberry pie he ate the night...
Just as casual, just as relaxed, was U.S. Diplomat Harold Stassen as he strode around London and Paris last week. His job was to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Russians on disarmament, so that A-bombs, H-bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Florida might some day become less necessary. Europe's headlines followed him about in friendly fashion ("OUTLOOK-PEACEFUL"). Even his colleagues in Washington-long put out because of his passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations...