Judgments & Prophecies, Aug. 1, 1955

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This unprecedented gesture should be a practical step towards peace, aside from any technical difficulties, because surely it should suggest ways and means by which information can be exchanged and suspicion dispelled.

New Delhi's HINDUSTAN STANDARD: EXCHANGE of information about military establishments and aerial photographs cannot have any practical bearing on peace or on war unless in the first instance agreement is reached on main issues of disarmament.

MAINICHI SHIMBON, Japan's second-largest daily: THE historic proposal is perhaps the greatest statement in recent world history toward a world without war. The gravity of the proposal lies in the fact that neither side could then keep secrets and, therefore, attack each other with weapons that could annihilate entire mankind. Eisenhower believes that with reason and mutual trust, the vicious mammoth could be domesticated.