GREAT BRITAIN: Strength & Elasticity

"Strength & Elasticity"

Younger minds, many of them witty, are stirring in the British Foreign Office now that Robert Anthony Eden is the new Foreign Secretary. It was possible to hear in Whitehall last week that "our foreign policy is shaping itself to save Musso's face, save the P. M.'s face, save Geneva's face, save the Negus' face and save Laval's two faces." With less complicated cynicism the object at Geneva when the League meets this week was said to be "simplicity itself, merely victory for all."

This kind of talk by...

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