Evening star., 1953-11-10
Big ThreeChiefs
Call Bermuda
Meeting Dec. A
Will Map Strategy
To Counter Threat
To Western Security
BY the Assoeioted Pre-"

President Eisenhower will meet
with Britain's Prime Minister
Churchill and French Premier
Laniel December in Bermuda
to develop new policies to counter
Russia's threat to Western Sc
curity.
The flve-day meeting, sug-
geSted by Mr.. Churchill, will also
bring together Secretary of State
Dulles, British Foreign Secretary
Eden and French Foreign Min
iSter Bidault to review Joint
Western strategy.
The Big Three conference was
announced by a formal White
House announcement.
Was Planned for July.
The announcement said:
1T has been decided to hold
the three-power conference at
Bermuda which was planned for
the beginning of July but had to
be put off.
president Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Dulles will
represent the United States; M.
Laniel, president of the Council
of Ministers and M. Bidault. for
eign minister, France, and Sir
Winston Churchill, Prime Mini
Ster, and Mr.. Eden, foreign min
iSter, Britain.
1t is hoped to meet from De-
cember 4 to December 8 and va
rious matters of common concern
to the three powers will be dis
cussed."
The apparent toughening OF
RusSia's anti-Western policies
presumably would rank high
among the topics.
Primary Purpose.
Informed officials said the
Bermuda sessions will be held
primarily to decide what course
the West should take in view Of
RuSsia's latest note rejecting the
allies bid to a Big -Four Foreign
Ministers Conference in Switz-
erland. That session was to
have begun yesterday.
At his news conference last
week, Gen. Eisenhower said the
Soviet Union, in it's reply, seemed
to be trying to prevent a Big
-Four conference "by injecting
impossible conditions"
The President added at that
time that the Soviet reply mani
tests no intention to get together.
but an intention to create as
many difficulties as possible"
Since last May MI. Churchill
has been urging that the leaders
of the Western powers meet with
Premier Malenkov of Russia.
Last week, however, he said
such a conference might do more
harm than good.
No Display of Good Faith.
Gen. Eisenhower has said re-
oeatedly that any conference with
Malenkov would have to be pre-
ceded by evidence of Soviet good
faith.
His statement last week made
it clear he feels there has been
no display of good faith.
. Administration officials are
known to feel that there has been
no change in the situation to
warrant a top level Big Four con-
ference.
The Big Three had planned to
meet in Bermuda last July. The
conference first was delayed be-
cause of a French government
crisis, then postponed because Of
the illness of Mr.. Churchill.
Before the White House an
nouncement diplomats said that
the Bermuda conference will
take up the future of Western
Germany as a foremost issue.
Such other problems as Korea
and the war in Indo-China also
will be considered.
The Eisenhower Churchill
MEL parley was said to have been
arranged over the week end at
the British leaders suggestion.
Danger of Split Discounted.
The British Prime Minister
talked for 20 minutes last night
about world tension and diplo-
macy. but only in general terms.
He told the London Lord Mayors
dinner the world is in IAN awful
muddle," but just getting used
to the cold war is no solution.
He discounted any danger of an
Anglo-American split and said
time and patience and good
will" will bring a real settling
of world tension.
RuSSia'S unWillingness to yield
on any issue from Europe through
the Far East, as reflected by it's
latest note, has hit Eisenhower
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