“…The president, moreover, 'kept the US policy review moving towards a revision that would allow the United States and the Western Europeans to find as much common ground as possible'. 4 This essay, by contrast, contends that the narrow focus of both Forland and Spaulding on the effectiveness of Eisenhower's leadership in US embargo policy neglects other, perhaps more significant, factors which contributed to the revision of international East-West trade controls. In particular, the Churchill government's determination to limit the strategic embargo to items of a strictly strategic nature through the 'short list' initiative was crucial to the August 1954 revisions.…”