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 ablewith or without U.S. aidto stand on its own feet in its dealings with the rising powers of the...