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...news out of Britain this week is that Winston Churchill has given up his long hopes of a "parley at the summit" with Malenkov soon. His most influential Cabinet advisers talked him out of it-with an unexpected assist from, of all people, Vyacheslav Molotov...
...more than a year Sir Winston had been rumbling in public and private about his desire to see Malenkov in a last, dramatic attempt to bring peace to the troubled world. The atmosphere of Geneva got him all stirred up again. He broached the idea to his Cabinet, which heard him in grim silence. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Lord Salisbury, leader of the House of Lords and Churchill's longtime adviser on foreign policy, objected strongly and bitterly...
...develop. His critics insist that too many domestic problems are unsettled because of the Old Man's inability to concentrate for long, and that he must step down decently in advance of the party's conference at Blackpool on Oct. 7. But their position is delicate: Sir Winston, who will be 80 on Nov. 30, has told intimates recently that he does not expect to live long without the stimulus of supreme responsibility. And so top Tories, though convinced that the time has come when he must retire, are hesitant about importuning him, lest they speed the doughty...
...This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister "to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," sat glum and with bowed head as his government announced that Britain was withdrawing its troops from Egypt...
...Anthony Eden and his course of capitulation at Geneva, approval came from all quarters of the political spectrum, from Bevanites to Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. But. except for the cries from the Bevanite left, even the loudest cheers had no note of jubilation, and the warmest congratulation betrayed a nagging suspicion that not peace, but trouble, lay ahead. Britain sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only...