THE NATION: The Other Bastion

At San Francisco, the free world had buttressed its bastion in the Pacific. Last week the Big Three's Foreign Ministers looked to their Atlantic defenses. Under the impetus of a new sense of solidarity, they swiftly reached tentative decisions as far reaching as those made in San Francisco.

Flying back from the West Coast together, France's Robert Schuman. Britain's Herbert Morrison, and the U.S.'s Dean Acheson began their conversations in the noisy intimacy of an Air Force plane. The discussion continued around a long elliptical table on the top floor of the...

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