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Show mmmbwwhbmiiiiiumiuuiumuiim deltind tlte JJeadflned j . .,a Berlin and German problems since he was first catapaulted in to the public eye. Berlin and its capture was Gen. Eisenhower's prime objective during the war. When Eisenhower, then a Lt. General, was transferred from the Mediterranean after the invasions in-vasions of Africa and Sicily to prepare for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, he managed to return re-turn to Washington for a brief Christmas time leave in 1943-44. In his book "Crusade in Europe," Eu-rope," Eisenhower wrote that he "met with the War Department upon his arrival in the U. S. and then with the President. Mr. Roosevelt was temporarily ill with influenza. However the late FDR "kept me at his bed-, ""MiniiwBiiininHniHiHniiiiHHwiiniMiiiiiiiiinmiinmiiiiiiMHiiHHiiwiHiw The nation's capital continues to be dominated more by inter-. inter-. national problems than by domestic do-mestic affairs. This seemed truer than ever this week when even remote Tibet, which the U. S. has never had to think about before, be-fore, became a chief topic of consideration, following the Tibetan Ti-betan revolt against the Red Chinese. Moreover, the only purely domestic developments to come from Congress involved factional differences within the Republicans and Democrats. (iqiHHminiHNinnHiiMUflimiHHiumuuHMiMmnuuiiiMiiinniNHrHiimiHTnuRiwiuiMiMiHi fill Dulles' shoes. A highlight of the NATO conference was the President's series of speeches in Washington and at Gettysburg, reaffirming Allied determination to resist Soviet pressure in Berlin. Ber-lin. A declaration vowing to stay in Berlin was also the principal accomplishment of the NATO talks, stressing Allied unity. But behind the scenes, NATO delegates, especially the British, were outspoken in their criticism of President Eisenhower. They believe he is deliberately trying Churchill and others on the fu- ture of Germany after the war. I He says he saw "Berlin as a laboratory lab-oratory in which democracy could compete with communism, a focal point for international cooperation, an anoying problem : in East-West relations, but also I a place in which we could consistently con-sistently demonstrate the superiority super-iority of freedom and human dignity dig-nity over communism." He was constantly involved with . the Berlin and German problems while serving as NATO Supreme Commander under the former President Truman. There is strong evidence then, that he may have far more back ground in the Berlin and German problems than the President is often given credit for. Moscow may also be underestimating Ike on Berlin. Could you find a pinch of salt in 35 freight cars of sugar? If not, chances aire you could not find an impurity in germanium one of the purest substances known. Germanium, used in Bell System transistors, is refined so that impurities are , estimated at only. 5 parts in 100 billion or. about equal to a pinch of salt in 35 freight cars of sugar. Conservative Republicans were irked at the prospect that Sen. Thurston Morton jf of Kentucky would succeed Meade Alcorn as GOP National Chairman. Many Republicans want a full , time chairman, although Morton said he had no intention of resigning from the Senate. In the Democratic camp, Sen. Pat McNamara of Michigan then heaped new criticism on his own party's Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson of Texas by ac- side for more than an hour as we discussed a hundred details of past and future operations. He took occasion to brief me on his post hostilities plans for Germany," Ger-many," Eisenhower said. It was a lengthy conference primarily about Berlin, relations with Russia Rus-sia and postwar Germany. Ike wrote that after that bedside conference he never saw FDR again. , In his book the President referred re-ferred often to such war time talks he had with the late FDR, to play down the East-West summit sum-mit talks, in which Prime Minister Min-ister Macmillan especially believes be-lieves world tension can be eased. u The British and several other NATO delegations went. back to their homes grumbling r, bout the ."domination of U. S. policies by, the Pentagon's generals arid admirals and defense contracts." large segment of the British press went so far as to say that he Pentagon is deliberately fomenting fo-menting Cold War tensions at a cusing Johnson of a lack of leadership lead-ership and of. accomplishment during the first session of the 86th Congress, now past the half way mark. This lack of Congressional activity ac-tivity gave the full Washington spotlight to the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Or-ganization. The NATO Council in turn, gave , virtually its full attention to the Soviet threats time when Krushchev, has shown He is willing to negotiate, using Berlin as an excuse for negotiations. negotia-tions. , , , i , But the severest criticism was levelled at President Eisenhower himself. It was stressed that, the NATO conferees hoped Secretary of State Dulles would soon be' able to return to his duties and attend Foreign Ministers talks preceding a, Summit conference. It was especially hoped that Dul- against the west in Berlin. So many delegates and advisors, advis-ors, aides and assistants from the fifteen NATO countries even poured into Washington that the capital assumed more of the appearance ap-pearance of the United Nations. Foreign flags, military uniforms and limousines were to be seen everywhere jduring the tenth anniversary an-niversary conference of NATO. Such purely domestic problems as the Teamsters Union, labor reform, re-form, the farm, problem and the budget practically vanished from conversation, i Missed most was Secretary of State Dulles, recuperating after treatment for cancer. Acting Sec. Christian Herter did his best to les would attend Summit talks if they are held since, British critics say, "Eisenhower simply does not have the background required for the task of negotiating negotiat-ing on Berlin and the German issues." , , , Oddly, the Soviet press has also said that such negotiations on Berlin "would be far above Mr. Eisenhower." Many Americans, regardless of political party have also wondered privately and out loud if such talks about Berlin would not be beyond the President's Presi-dent's comprehension. It is at this point that it is encouraging to remember that President Eisenhower has been considering many aspects of the |