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AMERICA TODAY

Her doubts and dismay =

AN IMPORTANT REPORT ON THE STARTLING EISENHOWER CRISIS... by RENE MacCOLL

WASHINGTON,

nation in the belief that while Ike took them at their word. of the days of Normandy, of the Eisenhower, even the seni- Hence the embarrassingly fit, younger The. Invalid Eisenhower, was in the frequent retreats to the golf White House all would be well course where, everyone knows. nothing coukl possibly Iko can only be disturbed for

really important matter." Their word

TOW comes the

go

Hence the many Rames of bridge. Hence the hour's rest, in bed it possible, daily after lunch, Henen the basic reluct- ence of a man, who knows he

Well, that is 13 long, hard We are dealing now years ago. with the Tke of 1957. And that is not at all the same thing.......... And in this mood of bilter- ness and disarray, unfriendly jokes about Ike-who has been hitherlo more or less sacrosanct

Nawakening. They call him the bus had a bad t

bitter has had a bad heart attack, to are in circulation in Congress

anything like "cotton-wool" President. To full throttle in a job which in some extent

times this is not Iko's modern

has always fault:

demanded full throille, and never more so than now. Such close personal friends and. trusted advisers Jamos Hogerty,

Press Secretary, and Sherman Adams,

MERICA today has a huge surplus of everything she could possibly the steely-minded, tough former

need except one vital commodity-leadership. I have returned to the United States to find this great country in a mood such as I have never seen here before of uncertainty, doubt, and considerable dismay.

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Not even the pulverising shock of the Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbour in 1941 produced a national state of mind to compare with that resulting from the impact of the Sovlet satellite,

That the West stands now in deadly peril is doubted by few men in responsible positions here in Washington, whatever may be the tenor of some of the speeches.

THE

The tilt

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ochlevement with soothing terms of thousands of millions words, has allowed the situation more dollars for defence.", to drii! so that today, nearly three

And it

Eisen- is true that weeks after Sputnik II

it last convinced that was launched, nothing has really hower. HE Russian success has not been achieved in spite of the the Spuiniks are objects of

only immediately titled the clamorous voices.

importance, has embarked on a balance of power to o

radio-TV highly Planning remains in a mess series of china-up” dangerous degree, but it leaves and the various American talks to the nation. the United States und her services are still jealously at Western allies facing a perlod one another's throats.

Chins-up!

But the impact is lacking.

response.

enough

Volied

Years ago

Governor of New Hampshire, THINK, too, that is not all who today is really a sort of Ike's fault for this reason. executive vice-President, suc- Not for the first time in history ceeded in convincing Ike, before nation looks at a famous last year's elections, that it hu generol and still sees him as he would only run again he could, was in the days of his prime merely by being In the White and his milltary glory.

Most Americana tend to House, solve all problems more or less without effort,

regard, Ike as the Ike of 1944,

i

and in the clubs. "

he Today

La known 03 America's "Putinik." And the story is everywhere told of the guide who calls out to the party of tourists na

the they pass White House: "And here you see the tomb of America's well- known soldier."

MONDAY

Can any one man 'do

Ike's job?

The truth about that Commons row by DEREK MARKS A FEUD WITH THE TANG OF REAL BITTERNESS

HE Macmillan-Gaitskell servant, and eventually private

Macmillan le battling now

of, perhaps, two or three years, When I arrived in bustling, Talk of the increase In expendi- the bleakness of which can richly glittering Washington ture does not get home to the scarcely be exaggerated, while the President was far away, man in the street. It is too

name-calling episode in secretardo Bonomic Wartare.

Dr

at the to pull off a General Elec- the West tries to catch up. He was in Georgis, round- thadowy, not specite

knows that the

tion victory which would in it- ing out yet another golfing He This tremendous crisis pro holiday

self be history, for no party has In the sunshine this States has taken a bad beating the Commons highlights the

There have got to be civil succeeded in winning three con vides the kind of situation in one has lasted nearly a week.

from the Soviet Union, and talk personal clash between the of more money to be spent in Prime Minister and the but soldiers always feel a bit of

servants even in wartime, secutive General Elections. which the United States is polentially at her dynamic best.

the Budget seems en inadequate Lender of the Opposition resentment against them. And it his party back into power at

Galtakell is striving to heave

that is likely to prove a big is resentment that lingers. Ume when he must have the And the two "chins-up" factor in British politics.

feeling that one more good Macmillan entered the House shove and the door of 10, Down- have been flops, facts of international life to be AND when the newly appoint peeches

of Commons in 1824, but it was ing Street put to the people in

will open to admit all their Ad Defence Secretary, Nell H. although the second was perhaps

the more delightful not until 1940 that he got his him better than the first. In the harshness, there 15 до

doubt McElroy, wanted to see Eisen- st the President seemed far popular myths about We first taste of office no Parlia- that America would respond tower, about vital plans for from well briefed, and analysis spite publie quarrels on affairs Ministry of Supply,

minster is the bellet that, de- mentary Secretary to the with a mighty upsurge to meet increasing the money, to be

of it how chown that he was the new challenge.

spent on American rockets and guided misalict, it was to Georgia shaky on some of his facts. But the call to sacrifice has and the golf course that he had not been made. There has been to fly.

If the alarm Kwere to bn

| sounded loud and clear and the

no dynamism at the top. Instead

truc that

By parachute

One of

of State, our politicians are really the best of churns behind the scenes.

Of course, there are some people on

the both sides of

'Stupid'

So that they face each other ACTORS the Commons Despatch Box.

Each holds for the other, a visible

contempt and active dislike, which every now and

again rpurts forth in a bitter

There will be many mors of

the "part-time President, Yes, it Dwight D. Eisenhower, who at McElroy, the former detergent first tried to belittle the Soviet powder big-shot, now talks in THE hunk of metal which ikes of the flow exception year her, and with the ears them before this Parliament i

from Kodal GIFTS THAT SAY...

Open me first!

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PROJECTOR

showed on the TV screen,

over. Ex-

Commons who ako liked by AITSKELL entered Parlia- Uttle scene.

-but that the

later, five years and which was explained as rather than the rule. The aver- was Chancellor of the

For this is a sharp, bitter, being the cons

"I chequer. of a Jupiter uge high point of praise is:

personal conflict as well as a missile which had mucconfully suppose he's quite a decent

The man who

for re-entered the

rises swiftly desperate political struggle earth's ammofellow really."

Every now and again there is invariably earns the dislike of power. sphere after having been ahot out of it, had been matched by antagonism-Lloyd George and ly for their turn

an eruption of bitter personal those who have waited patient- officials out of 3 "space" exhibition in Washington Just before The made his speech.

Ike left the public with the impression that the cone came rocking back to earth puccess- driction fully withstanding the engendered on re-entering the atmosphere.

But In fact the cone came back much of the way from outer space by parachute.

no re-

This sort of “reassurance" is for many Americans assurprice

to achieve John Simon, Attlee and Neville power, Chamberlain. Now we have ; And the man who risca swift- Macmillan and Galtskell.

ly cannot help but think from From the point of view of time to time that the plodders Tories the Macmillan stamp, are a dull, stupid lot.

Macmillan is a business man- Gaitskell is just about the worst sort of Socialist possible to publisher, Galtakoll is imagine. In the first place he economista planner. is clearly "upper middle class" Macmillan is a great club man the Old Wykehamist tle is a he belongs to the Turf the fact which cannot be denied. Carlton, the Bortateaks, and

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Prátia He is the dret Prime, Minister for a very long time to koop up his club-ading habits.

Galta cell-meets his friends in his home or theirs. He takes

deeply sheasy, They don't like N classes are supposed to cinema.

at all. They are

TOW the "upper middle his wife and children to the

the business a usualnimo on getting "upper and upper"— Whatever asport of life is sphere which comes·· from the vast ce Macmillian himself, considered, the two man White House.

In

Bion, Bellol, the Grenadier almost direct opposites. Gall- This grim crisis and the Guards, and marriage to a skell is neat and precise

duke's daughter.

speech" and "dress; Macmillan deeply disturbing lack of forth- right response to it mes the Here is another factor in this has a scarcely restrained Ed American people rooping the clash of personalities which wardian floweriness in both..

unimportant. Moaillan But both men share one attri... That year when they volea had a splendid record the buto and Tt is this common. Elsenhower for a second term First World War. Gaitskell was quality that provokes the clash. President, knowing him 10 only eight-yours old when Mace They are both shrewd political millan maroked with the Guarda, operators, You do not become in 1914. markenthe leader of either of the major Ha was '33) when wae” broke paětion without" klowing! all the put in 1939 and became a civil tricks of the politician's tendwa

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An extraordinary : mood of complacency engulfed tie whole,

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