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| | Neutral Zone -- Monday, Dec. 30, 1957 -- Page 1 -- TIME |
 | | The notion of "disengagement" of hostile forces by creating a buffer zone between them has had a long appeal, and it is still strong today among statesmen and pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. |
 | | At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. |
 | | His government had studied earlier proposals for a neutral zone, he told a television interviewer, concluded that such a zone would be easily overrun in case of war. |
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