ALLIANCES: Meeting In Bermuda

At the Mid-Ocean Club overlooking Bermuda's blue-green waters, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan planned to eat together, drink together, perhaps golf together for four days. These old friends of World War II days (when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez.

The differences were real, and some of them remain....

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