Secretary of State John Foster Dulles correctly foresaw that the Communists would get short-term, tactical advantages from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva."
John Foster Dulles also predicted that certain long-term advantages might accrue to the West....
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