Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-23
We Must Stond together

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
are back home now, but Britain still
looms large in the affairs of Washington.
It does so in the person of Prime Min
lister Harold Macmillan. He will be with
us for three days, and he Is most heartily
welcome, particularly because his visit
promises to do much to reinvigorate
Anglo American cooperation Of sort
that is vital to the interests and security
not only of his country and ours, but
of every other free nation as well, In all
parts of this tenSion-ridden world.
As officials have assured US, 1t may
be true that no acute emergency has
impelled Mr.. Macmillan to fly here for
talks with President Eisenhower But
there can be no blinking the fact that
the international situation has acquired
a marked air of urgency in recent weeks.
For the Kremlin's policy, as II embold-
ened by such things as the launching
of Sputnik and Soviet progress in the
field of intercontinental missiles, has
suddenly become uglier and more belli-
cose than usual, even to the extent Of
deliberately melting conditions that
could lead to war in the Middle East.
Accordingly, nothing could be more
timely than the current get-together Of
the President and Prime Minister. They
have many problems to discuss, but none
so important at the moment as that Of
bringing Britain and the United States
as closely together as possible in COM
mon effort. along with like-minded
nations, to deal effectively with the great
actual and potential challenge implicit
in ID Moscow's stepped-up drive to PEN
citrate and ultimately dominate the Mid
die East and (2) the advances achieved
by Russian scientists, especially in the
development Of missiles and other fam
tastic new weapons. In both these
respects, Soviet progress may still be
considerably less spectacular than the
pesSimists fear, but It certainly looks
formidable enough to demonstrate that
the West must undertake a thorough
going review of its position.
Since they are the keystone pc ers
Of the free world. 1t clearly devo tes
upon the United States and L. ain 10
take the lead in this situation. The. Is
why the President and Mr.. Macmillan.
besides considering a host Of other
matters, are expected to give priority
attention both to the Middle East and
to proposals for an Anglo-American
partnership Of the type that enabled us
to produce the worlds first atomic bomb.
To that end, the Prime Minister is re-
ported to have come here with cabinet
backed plan under which our two coun-
tries would engage in a sweeping
exchange of secrets and pool their SCI
entific brains and resources on a scale
calculated to head of any danger Of
losing the race to Red RUSSIA plan
that would require congressional amend
ment Of our present law.
In the light Of events, particularly
the light of the Kremlin's man-made
MOON some big joint effort of that sort
would seem to be imperative. II any
Of us think otherwise, we could do worse
than recall once again these warning
words of Winston Churchill: "At all
times when America and. the British
Commonwealth have stood together,
things have gone more or less right for
us. Whenever we have drifted apart
in the present century we have met with
calamity" and a. drifting apart now
would surely lead sooner or later to
catastrophe such as mankind has never
known" This is text well suited to
the talks now under way here.