COLD WAR: Prospects for the Parley

The Soviet Union last week grudgingly accepted the West's invitation to a Big Four parley at the summit. This, and the British election, made it a table for four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July 18-21.

Private Misgivings. All four participants publicly proclaimed...

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