The Summit Conference

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29221, 3 June 1960, Page 3

The Summit Conference

Sir,—Any hope that the Commons debate Would furnish fresh understanding of Paris happenings ii gone. Mr Macmillan refuses any account of MB position therein. This is not so strange. Paris presented Britain with the infrequent chance to play a conciliatory office as. between jittery American policy and Russian resolve to capitalise' from its exposure. The stake, world peace. Evidently Mr Macmillan’s awe of President Eisenhower precluded the counsel of humbling which might have brought the two, at least, to the conference table. How far must British political Integrity go as catspaw of American military preparedness?—Yours, etc., FRANCIS WM. HEAL. June 1. 1960.

Sir, —I am to 6 old in the tooth to be fooled and also not to know that espionage is carried on by all major countries, Russia included. There is a fundamental difference, however, in a plane equipped with spying instruments and flown by an armed pilot in defiance of international air space law, compared with the cloak-and-dagger brand of spying as known by the man in the street We know of the immense underground tunnel system built by the Americans in Germany to tap all East German communications. It must have cost a vast sum. 1 cannot see why socialism or communism should want world domination, as under such systems all the people are the sole owners of the wealth produced. Private armament and other monopolies are non-exis-tent. Mr Khrushchev’s statesmanlike speech in the United Nations calling for complete disarmament belies the world domination contention.—Yours, etc.. EC. May 30. 1960.