THE NATION: Together & Stronger

Just 15 days out of the hospital after his operation for cancer, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew north from his Key West convalescence this week to confer with President Eisenhower in Augusta, Ga. Dulles was doggedly determined to fly to this week's meeting of the NATO Council in Paris to help repair the damaged Atlantic alliance and reshape it for the long days ahead. Together in Augusta* the President and Dulles set the strategy: there would be no international slugging match on the rights and wrongs of Suez; there would be a new U.S. move, mulled over...

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