Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-01

president OF the UnlJeQ SCates
is the guest Of honor at a din
ner party in No. 10 Downing
Street. The President has al
ready arrived, and he and the
Prime Minister are together In
the state drawing room where
the BIC television service and
listeners to the home. European
and overseas services now join
them.
Macmillan: Well. Mr.. Presi-
dent, I want to start by saying
how much we all welcome you
here. Hundreds of thousands OF
our people have seen you in the
streets and millions Of our peo-
pie will be watching you to-
night.
In the II years Of our friend
ship, which I think started in
North Africa, we have had
many frank talks together. And
I think we can have a frank
talk this evening. We have had
good talks at Chequers and now
we are at No. 10.
Appreciates Reception
Eisenhower: Let me tell you
right away and all of those
good people out there who have
been so kind to me that we are
mighty glad to be back visiting
again in this lovely country.
Macmillan: I thought we
might begin by saying a word
about Anglo-American rela-
lions. In our lifetime We have
been pretty close together In
our countries.
OF course there have been
differences. it is no good deny
ing it, there have been serious
differences before the war. after
the war, two or three years ago
about the Middle East, some
times about the Far East, but
the great thing Is that we have
never dropped backward. we
looked forward.
I think you and I have tried
to do that, and now we are up
against the biggest Job in the
world: How to keep peace and
justice, and I want to say to
you, If I may, that I think your
visits to these three European
capitals and the interchange Of
visits that you are going to
make with Mr.. Khrushchev are
very sound contributions to
peace.
Good Relations
Eisenhower: Mr.. Prime Min
lister, I would like to say a per-
sonal word about this business
of Anglo-American relations.
Except for the two years that I
was in Columbia University,
ever since l941 ! have been en-
gagged in activities where one of
my principal concerns has been
the state and the strength Of
relationships between your
country and ours.
And I can say through that
long personal experience that
those relations have never been
stronger and better than they
are now, and in this regard !
would like to mention one coun-
try of the British Common
wealth-that is our geographic
cal neighbor in North America,
that is Canada. Here is o
border, more than 5000 miles
long. 1t is defended by nothing
but friendship.
Peaceful Border
There is not a gun or q fort
along it. This is the kind of
thing that I think we must all
strive to achieve, whether we
are geographical neighbors or
not, and I am quite sure If Mr..
Diefenbaker canadian Prime
Minister) were here he would
say we are neighbors In the
sense of the Biblical parable
just as well as we are geo.
graphical neighbors.
And one other point.
We have spoken Of your coun-
try and ours in relationship
with Canada but we are neigh
bors in another great society, q
society dedicated to peace and
the defense Of the West, and
that in NATO.
In that we are all proud to
be equal partners, and with
all OF our other associated
countries we are dedicated to
that one single objective of
making ourselves secure and
making peace more promising.
Through Two Wars"
Macmillan: You said peace.
Mr.. President. I agree with
you, but Of course a lot of our
people, old people who have
lived through two wars and
young people, are frightened
Of war.
They fear war and I have
thought a lot about this and
read a good recently. Now
the first war I feel ought
never to have happened. 1t
happened by mistake. I be-
lieve If we had had the same
kind of international meeting
that we have now it would not
have happened.
The second war was different.
I do not think anything could
have avoided it, when it hap
pened, how it happened. what
wicked men plotted it. who
were determined to achieve
their aims.
Danger Of Drift
Now In this situation ! have
felt there is a danger that we
might drift into something by
mistake, bluff, counterbluff,
lack Of understanding Of both
sides, and drift into something,
and tell you frankly when !