COLD WAR: The Upheld Conference

President Eisenhower's mild tone and Russia's conciliatory attitude in the case of the shot-down B-29 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were symptoms of a new and cooler temper in the cold war. There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by quoting George Washington: "Nothing...

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