Lake Geneva glistened and Mont Blanc kept distant watch. In the frescoed hall of Geneva's Palais des Nations, the chiefs of government of four of the world's most powerful nations sat down at the green-leather-topped tables. They came attended by guards, fussed over and briefed by attendant swarms of experts, backed by libraries of data and filing cases crammed with plans. President Eisenhower was chairman of the first session, and therefore in position to set the tone.
"We meet here for a simple purpose," said the President. "We are not here merely...
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