A silver Constellation dropped down on London Airport one morning last week, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles alighted from it. Like a stone in a pool, his arrival sent ripples of alarm coursing through Britain and France. Warmed by the spring sun, many British and French had somehow fallen into a hazy, hopeful dream that everything could be settled at Geneva if only nothing was done to alarm the shy Communists. To them, Dulles, with his call for "united action" before Geneva and a joint warning to Communist China, came as an...
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