OPINION: The Traveler

U.S. hands across the sea, recently warmly grasped by Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, got a nettle when they welcomed a third visiting British dignitary last week. He was Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, 59, Welsh-born foreign-affairs expert of Britain's opposition Labor Party, most advertised Foreign Secretary prospect in any future socialist government.

As he toured from New York to Cambridge, Mass. to Washington, Nye Bevan scolded Americans for not seeking compromises with Communist powers. He urged the U.S. to break down misunderstanding with the men in the Kremlin—"They are...

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