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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
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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. The East Germans might
not vote for Mr. K.'s "truth."
What this all adds up to
is that Mr. Khrushchev wants
to use a summit conference
to take Berlin behind the iron
curtain. At this stage this
doesn't make a summit meet
ing look very productive.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Balboa, C.Z. (UPD Panama
Canal traffic reached a record
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