While the U.S. was formulating its new policy for the Middle East, the State Department was busy hammering away at stubborn old problems. Last week it:
¶ Rejected a Soviet proposal, contained in a November letter from Bulganin to President Eisenhower, for a five-power (U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K., France, India) "summit" conference on disarmament. Wrote Ike: East-West disarmament talks should be continued within the U.N.
¶ Refuted a surge of anti-American rumors in Paris to the effect that the U.S. cut off oil supplies to France at the height of the...
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