FOREIGN POLICY BREACH

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 13

FOREIGN POLICY BREACH

Democrat Leader To Meet Eisenhower

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 22. President Eisenhower will confer with Senator Walter George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tomorrow in an effort to heal a serious foreign policy breach with Congressional Democrats.

The President, faced with explosive problems in the Middle and Far East, was said to be more concerned than ever over the possible impact of election-year political controversies on United States foreign policy.

The Eisenhower-George meeting will be held just a week before the British Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden) arrives in Washington for global foreign policy discussions at the White House. The Administration would like to ease political tensions before the conferences with Sir Anthony Eden.

The Administration was said to believe that the chances are against war in the Far East this year. But the State Department said only on Saturday that the Geneva talks with Communist China, aimed at resolving the

“threat of war” around Formosa, were making no progress. The United Press said that the Middle East was regarded as the most immediate threat to world peace. The Soviet Union’s decision to supply arms to Egypt worsened an already uneasy situation.