Inside Report (4)

How do Europeans like the sound of President Reagan's hard-line statements about the Russians? Reaction in Britain, at least, is cool and patient.

Officials say: "We get such shooting from the hip every four years from Washington. We won't comment on substance but will wait to be consulted."

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is due in Washington at the end of February. The British think they'll know more ab out US intentions then.m