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Gathered around Dwight Eisenhower in a suddenly convened White House session one morning last week were the eight leaders of his diplomatic, military, atomic energy and intelligence teams. Key men among them: Secretary of State Dulles, U.S. Disarmament Specialist Harold Stassen, and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting followed hard on the heels of other top-level, top-secret conferences-by the National Security Council, by the State and Defense Departments' top brass. And it was called to allow the President to settle a disagreement that had broken-out in his official...
Risks v. Opportunities. At week's end, his briefcase bulging with the U.S.'s new-position papers, Stassen flew back to London. Even more important than his specific instructions was the fact that the President had authorized him-and committed the U.S.-to take the "first step" if the other nations would take it, too. The risks, the President knew, were considerable. A faulty step could involve the U.S. in acrimony with its non-nuclear allies-especially with West Germany, which is already stirring with the unfounded suspicion that Washington is about to conclude an arms "deal" with...
...Open Mind." Although many of the basic decisions had already been worked out at the earlier meetings, the original disagreement had evidently run deep. Eight days before, when Stassen first reported home from London for new instructions, it was with the cheery word that the Russians, after two years of backing and filling over President Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection plan, now seriously wanted to negotiate a "partial" agreement on mutual aerial inspection and arms reduction. To hard-bitten Admiral Radford, Happy Harold Stassen's expressions of "cautious optimism'' about the possibility of such agreement...
Even without Dulles' disagreeable behavior, the United States' negotiators face a dilemma. About all that can be done in the "open skies" line is to appear co-operative on the thorny problem of European aerial inspection. It does seem that Mr. Stassen is capable of appearing much more cooperative than Mr. Dulles, who tends to rave slightly in times of impasse. But a quiet Dulles and the Stassen smile will not be enough. If aerial inspection of Europe is impossible, United States' negotiators must shift their approach to ground in which they can afford to give and take...
...Stassen declared America is seeking "in a serious vein" to find a sound program acceptable to all nations. He drew a reply from the Soviet representative, who said his county welcomed the manner of the U.S. approach to the disarmament problem...