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IN San Francisco, President Eisenhower expressed the world's longing for peace. He referred, inevitably, to the meeting of the Big Four in Geneva next month. But he prudently refrained from stimulating an excess of hope by promising big results. Peace is what we want. But let us not be too discontented if the coming meeting merely succeeds in smoothing off some of the rough edges and bringing about a condition of unwar a little less anxiety-ridden than that of the last few years.
COEXISTENCE POSSIBLE
Britain's pinko NEW STATESMAN AND NATION :
THE moment platitudes about peace JL and coexistence give way to definition of specific issues, we see how complex the problems of coexistence really are. The Big Four will find agreement on disarmament and compromises over Formosa and Germany difficult enough. But if coexistence is to be more than a temporary relaxation of tension, it must also mean the extension of large areas which are less and less dominated by the great power blocs. There cannot long be coexistence between two vast, armed monolithic groups unless between them there are continental areas like India and Southeast Asia in the east, and Germany and Central Europe in the west which, though perhaps armed, are not militarily committed and not available as great-power bases.