FOREIGN RELATIONS: Green Light for Stassen

Gathered around Dwight Eisenhower in a suddenly convened White House session one morning last week were the eight leaders of his diplomatic, military, atomic energy and intelligence teams. Key men among them: Secretary of State Dulles, U.S. Disarmament Specialist Harold Stassen, and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting followed hard on the heels of other top-level, top-secret conferences—by the National Security Council, by the State and Defense Departments' top brass. And it was called to allow the President to settle a disagreement that had...

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