Churchill’s private secretary, John Colville, recorded the scene: “[Eisenhower] said that as regards the prime minister’s belief that there was a New Look in Soviet policy, Russia was a woman of the streets and whether her dress was new, or just the old one patched, it was certainly the same whore underneath. America intended to drive her off her present ‘beat’ into the back streets.” Colville noted “pained looks all round.”
