Meeting Deferred

Late last week Dwight Eisenhower set out for a couple of days of relative relaxation at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The weekend had scarcely begun when news arrived that physical strain resulting from overwork had forced Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (78) to postpone indefinitely plans for a Bermuda meeting with Ike and French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health is of great concern to all the world and you must, therefore, bow to the advice of your physicians." He signed the message "Ike."

Last week the President also:

P:Signed, only 15 days after he had first requested it, a bill authorizing shipment of 1,000,000 tons of U.S. wheat to famine-threatened Pakistan.

P:Fired Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond S. McKeough, Truman-appointed members of the International Claims Commission, which handles claims of U.S. investors whose property has been nationalized by foreign governments. Marvel and McKeough, who had refused to resign their $15,000-a-year jobs after the election, had settled only 132 claims in more than three years, still had 1,000 pending.

P:Sent a letter to the American Library Association (see EDUCATION) reaffirming the belief in freedom of inquiry which he stated two weeks ago at Dartmouth College in a speech denouncing "book-burners."

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