FOREIGN RELATIONS: Fair Under Fire

FOREIGN RELATIONS Faith Under Fire

At the weekly White House conference with G.O.P. Senate leaders one morning last week, Senate G.O.P. Policy Committee Chairman Styles Bridges asked permission to read a letter from an irate citizen. The letter, delivered with oratorical flourishes, was a scathing indictment of the U.S. exhibit at the Brussels Fair as a notable U.S. propaganda failure in the cold war. Leaving the White House, Bridges told reporters that the President was "very irritated" at what he had heard. And next day, on the President's urgent order, purse-lipped George V....