On both sides of Europe the guns of cold war thundered more furiously last week than in many months. The target once again was Germany. But this time, the West held the initiative.
After a summer of doldrums and defeatsGeneva, Indo-China, the death of EDCthe democracies had suddenly rallied and rolled out some new and hand some diplomatic field-pieces: the all but completed Anglo-Egyptian settlement over Suez, the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement, the harmonious partition of Trieste and, above all, the potentially history-changing Act of London. With this quick parade of successes,...