All week long, the eyes and the interest of U.S. policymakers were focused on Europe. They watched two widely separated dramas, and what they saw looked good for the U.S. and for the free world.
First, there was the British election, which increased the Conservative Party's House of Commons voting majority from 18 to 59 seats. The Labor Party, whose powerful left wing is passionately anti-American, went down to a staggering defeat. While the U.S. can and has worked with both Socialist and Conservative governments in Great Britain, the prospects for close cooperation in cold war are far better with...
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