GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Goes to Washington

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MIDDLE EAST. Churchill hopes to clarify "the optical problem" between the U.S. and Britain—the different angles from which the two nations look at the Arabs. He hopes for renewed U.S. assurance of support for the British refusal to give ground to Egypt. The U.S. in turn hopes to convince Britain that it should try once more to negotiate an oil settlement with Iranian Premier Mossadegh, instead of waiting for Mossadegh to fall.

ATOMIC ENERGY. Using the argument that the British provide the U.S. with important atomic bases, Churchill hopes to resume the wartime exchange of atomic information, which has practically come to a stop since the Fuchs spy case.

COLD WAR. Churchill is reportedly itching to propose either a Big Four meeting or a "parley at the summit" between himself and Premier Stalin. Eden has steadfastly argued against the idea, knowing it would sit poorly in Washington, and would be regarded in Moscow as a sign of weakness.