'The Frightening Significance'

In the center of the diplomatic stage at the United Nations, under the glaring floodlights of world interest and hope, the U.S. sought agreement last week on a practical first step toward easing the strains of cold war: it proposed an international inspection system in the Arctic to provide protection against surprise attack. But in the center of that same stage, under the same glare of floodlights, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics said nyet (see FOREIGN NEWS)--and proved beyond any last lingering doubt that it is more interested in the propaganda of peace than in the reality.

Speaking that night in Durham, N.H., on his way to the NATO conference in Copenhagen, John Foster Dulles, genuinely disheartened, departed from his prepared text: "At the choice of the Soviet Union, the fears and risks continue. They continue for one reason alone, and that is because the Soviet Union rejects international inspection against surprise attack. The significance of that is frightening. The result is tragic. It means that at the will and choice of the Soviet Union, we shall have to go on living on the edge of an awful abyss."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.