One quiet afternoon in London last week, the phone rang for U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce. It was Washington on the line asking the envoy to meet a plane with an urgent packet for British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Ambassador Bruce got to the airport, he found 1) a courier with a parcel that turned out to contain aerial pictures of the Red missile sites in Cuba; and 2) former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, en route to Paris and Bonn as the President's special emissary to alert the rulers of France...
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