FOREIGN RELATIONS: Fundamental Difference

While the foreign ministers of seven nations gathered in Manhattan last week to debate the Suez Canal question before the U.N. Security Council, the West had its ear cocked to a development that ultimately might prove more important than U.N. resolutions.

One byproduct of the tense tactical discussions among France, Britain and the U.S. over the canal has been a resurgence in Western Europe of the idea of a federated Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Newest reason: such a federation would be able—with or without U.S. aid—to stand on its own feet in its dealings with the rising powers of the...

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