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Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann PREPARING FOR THE SUMMIT This week In Washington the leading Western Foreign Ministers will be holding the first of three meetings to pre pare lor the summit in Paris on May 16. The second meet I n .mnpnig ing will iae( -wist, f place in istan-; a bul early in ! ' - H- I .u j- ' -iny, aim me I h O f third in Paris 5 B lust before the summit meet- JiV. 7J Ins itself. Sec- declared at 4h0 lter . Linpmann P r e p aratory meetings the Foreign Min isters will be "trying to re solve among ourselves, the Western powers, what Issues we feel It is desirable to raise at the conference" in May. As the series of meetings begin, the controlling lact is that there is no big issue which all the Western powers think it is desirable to raise. There is nothing that all of them, indeed any of them, urgently want to do. At bot tom they are united in the feeling that on the crucial question - which turns on the two Gcrmanys and the two Berlins - the situation as it Is, Is good enough, and that the best thing to do would be to leave it alone. Adenauer and de Gaulle most insistently, Macmillan and Eisenhower acquiescing, believe that the Western position at the summit must be to stand pal on the status quo, and to be prepared to make tactical moves to re puse or to divert any Soviet move to change the status quo. IN THEORY, the Western nations want more than the status quo. In theory, they want the re-unification of the two Germanys. In theory, they want the liberation of Eastern Europe. In theory, they want a reduction of arm aments. But In fact they have no hope that any of these goals can be reached at a price which they are willing to pay. In fact, Western Europe Is prospering mightily although Germany and Berlin are divi ded. In fact, Western Europe is not afraid of war although the Red Army is on lis fron tiers. For the status quo ap pears to them to be so secure and is in fact so profitable that the problem of the sum mit meeting is how to go there and how to come away from there without changing any thing and without losing face. rpHE unresolved question "about the summit Is whether the Soviet Union is so dissatisfied with the status quo that It will run any ser ious risk In order to change It. Nobody knows. We can only guess. The worst that Mr. K. has threatened us with Is that he will sign a separate peace treaty with the East German state, will leave It to the East Germans to argue It out with us about our access to West Berlin, and will stand ready to support the East Germans if they provoke us Into using military force. This threat, which originally had a time limit attached to It, was very considerably softened at the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meet ing at Camp David. The Soviet threat Is now In definite and rather ambigu ous. It is not a very terrifying threat because the risk, If the worst came to worst, Is fully as great for (he Soviet Union as for the United States and Its allies. Mr. K. must know by this lime that while we cannot stop him from signing a treaty with East Germany, signing that treaty will not change the status quo. West ern access to West Berlin can not he blocked. At most it can be harrnsscd. A PART from the special il problem of Berlin, Ihere I an underlying agreement with the Soviet Union. This agreement can never be ad milted and formalized In a treaty. The agreement It that the status quo with the two Germanys is tolerable. It Is not the best that either side wants. But it is not the worst that either side fears. This tin avnwed and unavowable con sensus reflects the balance of power which, for the lime being at least, is equal enough FOREIGN CURRENCY PAY Washington -OTIu The Sen ale Foreign Relations Commit tee voted Wednesday to au thorize the government to pay American troops abroad In foreign currency. The meas ure was aimed at halting dibck marKct activities U.S. dollars. to produce a diplomatic stale mate. If this is a correct estimate of the situation, it follewi that the problem of the sum mit will be little like the problem at the Republican convention in July. It li to find something interesting and useful to talk about. "Disarmament" Is the ob vious subject to talk. For It li in inexhaustible subject for diplomats who have to talk - because talking helps to keep the peace. It it a subject about which no one expects serious and far reaching agreement. Dr. Adenauer, for example, who wants to do nothing about the central issue In Europe, wants to Itlk about disarmament. For disarmament, like the synthetic dog bones flavored with ham which are now for sale, gives the diplomats some thing to chew on. rpHIS Is not a cynical view -- of the summit meeting. If it sounds cynical, that is be cause the Western powers want to be united and there fore have to be unanimous; they are going to the summit not to make things better but to prevent them from becom ing worse. They are prepar ing, the tactics of a defensive campaign - no retreat but also no advance - and they will be well-satisfied if the net re sults is nobody's gain and no body's loss. The best that can be said of this defensive position is that it can probably be held for some little time to come. The worst that can be said of it is that it cannot be held indef initely and that it is not a policy with which to look for ward to the future. For there is no slightest reason to thjnk that In a place like West Ber lin or in the morbid relation ship of the two Germanys, time is on the side of the West. 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