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Thursday, April 2, 1959 S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 0 i . - x .v a w M l mm m in ri Mix. "v rw a r " Drummond Reports Roscoa Drummond reports on the Washington scene in the ab sence of Waiter Lippmann. THE CLOUDY SUMMIT Washington - President Ei senhower has frequently warned of the harm that would be done by allowing great hopes to be built up for the success of a summit conference and then seeing them crushed in failure. What the President is say ing is that if a summit isn't going to accomplish anything, it will leave things worse than before; if it does nothing, it will have done harm. One way to avert this dan ger is to refuse to go to the summit unless the prelimin ary progress of the Foreign Ministers justifies it. The Allies put a little of this con dition in their latest note to Moscow, but the pressures for a summit meeting are great and it is arguable that Pre mier Khrushchev is the only Soviet official who can make top decisions and that it can best be done in person. The other way to avert a massive let-down from a sum mit failure is to make sure there is no massive build-up. IT IS the consensus of those whose duty it is to avoid wishful thinking that the Soviet Union is not ready to negotiate any settlement, in Europe which would not be to the overwhelming disad vantage of the West. Obviously the Kremlin would be delighted to be able to push us out of West Berlin, keep Germany from having modern weapons, persuade us to dismantle NATO and take U. S. forces out of Western Europe. But Mr. Khrushchev knows he can't get that all at once go he is proposing to take only the first bite. Why is it wise not to ex pect much from a summit meeting? Here is part of the evi dence: After Mr. Khrushchev proposed to liberate West Ber lin from the West (like the Chinese are liberating Tibet from the Tibetans), we said no. Ke said, well, what do you propose? We propose unit ing the dismembered Ger WHITE NALLEY'S 0 many alter wnicn .Benin would be automatically a free city. What did Premier Khrush chev think of that? He thought poorly of it and the two Germans to whom he revealed his opposi tion most bluntly are the two anti-Adenauer Germans who have been most confident that, if only they were in of fice, they could negotiate something real good with the Soviets. They are Prof. Carlo Schmid, Deputy Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Fritz Erler, Deputy Chairman of its parliamentary section. They traveled to East Berlin to see Khrushchev and to show how Adenauer's "rig idity" was holding up unifi cation. a rpHEY found out all right. Disappointed and disillu sioned, they have reported candidly to their colleagues in Bonn. What they had to report was that Moscow wasn't in the least interested in German unification, that there was no concession which either the West or West Ger many could make to bring it about except to accept the puppet government in East Germany. As to elections lead ing to basis for unification, Mr. Khrushchev put it quite candidly: "Since there are more than 50,000,000 West Germans (and only 17,000,000 East Ger mans), this means that the majority, not truth, would triumph." This is, of course, authentic Communist doctrine - an elec tion wThich the Communists can't be sure in advance will come out "right" is no fair. I But even here Mr. Khrush- ' chev mistakes the facts. The West is not asking that the 50,000,000 West Germans be allowed to decide what the 17,000.000 East Germans want. Wy shouldn't the East Germans be allowed to decide by ballot whether they want, to unite with West Germany on the basis of free elections? But Mr. K. will have none of that. 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