ATTITUDE OF AMERICA
Warning Given By Senator (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 12. A word of caution against approaching any Four-Power heads-of-State talks with “a defeatist attitude” came today from Senator Walter George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said the administration should take a “strong initiative” in its approach to the meeting. He was commenting on President Eisenhower’s statement, yesterday, that his willingness to meet with the heads of State of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union was based in part on “a vague feeling that some good might come out of such a conference,” said Senator George. “One thing that is disturbing to me is whether we are moving with any real conviction to take the initiative, rather than just acquiescing. “There seems to me to be a lack of enthusiasm and a lack of positive attitude on our part toward a top-level conference, which, if we take the strong attitude, might do some good. “We must recognise all the possibilities of failure in any such conference, but we should have a positive, not a defeatist attitude, toward it.
“If we are going to accomplish anything in the world, we have to have such a positive attitude, and I’m afraid we don’t have it now,” said Senator George.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 13
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