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Keeping the Peace. Two weeks from now the U.S.-British rift will come up for mending, when Prime Minister Eden visits President Eisenhower in Washington. The fears and feelings of U.S. allies are important, but against them must be balanced the necessity of keeping before the world's mind the central fact of the peace: Communist aggression has been deterred only by the willingness and the ability of the free world to go to war rather than cringe before the threats.
At week's end Vice President Richard Nixon restated Dulles in simple terms that may survive all references to "chance" or "brink" or "art." Praising Dulles, Nixon said: "The test of a foreign policy is its ability to keep the peace without surrendering any territory or any principle. And that great fact about the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy will stand out long after the tempest in a teapot over the expression [brink of war] is forgotten."