Peace of a sort settled upon the Asian kingdom of Laos. An uneasy cessation of actual shooting, it stirred in Washington an audible whew of relief. But it was relief without joyfor the cease-fire in Laos came as a cold war defeat for the U.S. A 14-nation peace conference, scheduled to convene in Geneva in mid-May, will doubtless declare Laos "neutral." But Western experts, with discouraging unanimity, agree that such a Laoswith a Communist sympathizer at the head of the government, with Communists in posts of governmental power, and with Communist troops already holding half the nationwill quickly go...
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