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Administration Takes Come to Senses' Attitude
By WELLINGTON LONG
United PrM International
Washington - IUPD - Wal
ter Hallstein, chiel of the
"Eurocrats," was i r e i h
from a session with Presi
dent Kennedy.
Was Kennedy bitter about
French President Charles
de Gaulle's go-it-lone course
in Europe?
The president of the high
commission of the Euro
pean economic community
hesitated only an instant.
"Not to any degree,"
Hallstein replied. "I did
note deep disappointment."
Two months after de
Gaulle's Jan. 14 Paris press
conference which was mark
ed by the French leader's
stubborn opposition to Ken
nedy's Western defense
plans and British entry into
the European Common Mar
ket, the administration is
taking the attitude that de
Gaulle eventually will
... "come to his senses." In
the meantime the policies
to which de Gaulle objected
will be continued, with no
apparent attempt to accom
modate them to his objec
tions. Works on Assumption
The United States con
tinues to work on the as
sumption Britain will some
day enter the Common Mar
ket, despite de Gaulle's
veto. And Kennedy has
pushed ahead with plans
to create a multilateral nu
clear force within NATO,
also despite de Gaulle's
; forthright rejection.
But the initial anger de
Gaulle has begun to wear
off and even to be directed
against the Germans.
Isolationism so far has
not undergone a revival,
although Kennedy has made
a subtle switch. Before Jan.
. 14, the President always
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spoke of the "American
presence" In Western Eu
rope as something perma
nent. Could Pull Oui
- Since Jan. 14, he has said
that if the West Europeans
ever built up their forces
to the point at which they
felt they could defend them
selves, and if the Europeans
then wanted the Americans
to pull out, they would do
so. But he always adds that
he doubts the majority of
Europeans ever will want
the Americans to depart.
In January and early
February, the attitude of
the average American was
anger that de Gaulle should
have opposed something the
United States wanted after
all this country had done
for France.
Even leaders of the Ken
nedy administration, which
publicly says it is a mistake
to believe you can always
and Immediately buy votes
with economic aid, took
this attitude.
Taxi drivers, business
men, secretaries and news
paper reporters were
mouthing a refrain ' that
usually ran something like
this:
Save France Twin
"Twice we had to go
over there to save France
and as soon as de Gaulle
gets in trouble he'll want
us to get him out again.
So what business does he
have not going along with
our policies."
Kennedy himself called
in the West German am
bassador; a large gentleman
named Karl H e i n r i c h
Knappstein, and demanded
to know why, after all the
United States had done for
postwar Germany, German
Chanchellor Konrad Ade
nauer had been unable or
unwilling to keep de Gaulle
in line.
Undersecretary of State
George Ball, the adminis
tration's most enthusiastic
supporter of the theory
that Britain and European
Freed Trade association
partners should and could
be coerced into the ' Com
mon Market, loosed some
verbal blasts at de Gaulle.
The French leader's ideas
were out of date, Ball de
clared. B.gina Dialectic Switch
Ball then began one of
Washington's quickest dia
lectic switches.
The Reciprocal Trade Ex
pansion act which he and
Kennedy pushed through
Congress on the promise
Britain would shortly be
inside the Common Market,
was actually unaffected by
de Gaulle's act, Ball ar
gued. The Latin Americans
ought to be pleased also.
They would continue to
compete inside the Common
Market on an equal basis
with the British Common
wealth. Ball preached that line
all over the capital at back
ground briefings for the
press and politicians.
Kennedy and all his
principal advisers insisted
Britain will one day be per
mitted inside the Common
Market. They also insist
that the creation of some
form of multilateral nuclear
force for NATO is inevita
ble and that, once it is suc
cessful, de Gaulle will meld
France's independent nu
clear force into it.
Nothing Basically Changed
In brief, the administra
tion is proceeding as if
nothing has changed basi
cally. . 1
"This course evolved by
the United Slates and West
ern Europe after World
War II," Assistant Secre
. tary of Defense Paul H.
Nitze explained, "continues
to be valid. We each need
the other."
In line with that belief,
the President sent old dip
lomatic hand Livingston
Merchant around Europe to
sell the multilateral nuclear
force Idea. He even tried to
sell French Foreign Minis
ter Maurice Couve de Mur
ville on the plan, though
there was no reason to be
lieve the French were any
more willing to accept this
than the very similar Eu
pean defense community
scheme a decade ago.
West German Defense
Minister Kal-Uwe von Has
sel came to Washington,
promised his government
would support the multi
lateral nuclear force
scheme, and added that
France had no objection to
this German decision.
Tries to SHU Fears
But Hassel apparently
spent much of his time sim
ply trying to still Ameri
can fears that Germany,
under Its new treaty of co
operation with de Gaulle,
would now become so
closely tied to Paris that
it would also take its arms
business to France.
Sen. J. William Ful
brlght (D-Ark), chairman of
the Senate Foreign Rela
tions committee and one of
Washington's leading liber
als, except on racial issues.
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was angry at de Gaulle.
He said the Frenchman
cherishes romantic Illusions .
of being another Napoleon.
He also warned him against
trying to make Europe in
accessible to American
farm products. He said that
if the United States was
to keep 400,000 soldiers in
Europe, it had to be per
mitted to sell its farm pro
duce there to help pay the
bill.
But Philip L. Graham,
president and chief execu
tive officer of the Wash
ington Post, every inch as
liberal as Sen. Fulbright,
and able to get Kennedy
on the phone at least as
quickly, took just the oppo
site line.
Stand in Editorial
"De Gaulle," Graham de
clared in an editorial, "may
be making a decent stand
for the creation of a strong
and independent Europe.
Not a Europe opposing the
United States. But a Eu
rope strong enough, free
enough and dignified
enough to make a volun
tary partnership with the
United States toward the
beginning of an Atlantic
community."
Clare Boothe Luce, high
In Republican councils, for
mer ambassador to Italy,
and wife of the owner of
the Time-Life empire, laced
into Kennedy, and Ful
bright. "De Gaulle's image,"
Mrs. Luce wrote, "is being
rapidly worked over, with
the enthusiastic help of the
American left, to resemble
a half-mad Napoleon, or an
abominable no-man."
"But," she went on, "mili
tarily, Europe is Germany
and France. Their choice to
day is as plain as the nose
on Gen. de Gaulle's face.
"It is to get their own nu
clear umbrella, or to trust
the United States, if they
are attacked by Russian
conventional weapons, to
launch her missiles at Rus
sia, knowing that she would
get Russia's 100 - megaton
bombs right back. Gen. de
Gaulle has made the only
choice a patriotic French
man could possibly make."
Defends Position
Sen, Barry Goldwater (R
Ariz.), spokesman of Amer
ica's conservatives, had
Mrs. Luce's article placed
in the Congressional Rec
ord. Doing so, he explained:
"I, for one American, de
fend de Gaulle's position on
nuclear power."
Kennedy told one of his
post-Jan. 14 press confer
ences that "We- don't want
to see this great (Atlantic)
partnership dissolved." But
clearly, there were many
who felt the President was
doing little to crystallize
the partnership.
At a press conference on
March 6, the President said
that while the nation's pres
ent difficulties in Europe
"are annoying in a sense, or
burdensome, they are not
nearly as dangerous as they
were in the summer of
1961." This was when he
called out troops in the Ber
lin crisis.
The President was reply
ing to a suggestion that his
administration "had lost Us
The Collector's Corner
How many islands have U.
S. post offices? There are
many, and a collection of cov
ers with a cancel from each
Island makes a beautiful, edu
cational and interesting col
lection. The research for these is
lands is an education in itself.
How many of us know where
these islands are located, and
when and how our govern
ment happened to take con
trol of them? Corn Island, a
U. S. possession under foreign
rule, Truk Island. Yap, Wake,
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There are almost 50 American
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My letters from all over the
world are franked with such
pretty stamps lately. Japan
celebrates each of its four sea
sons with a festival, and al
ways a new issue of stamps.
Spring is welcomed with the
Bean Scattering Festival. The
stamp shows a small boy scat
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This stamp carries no identi
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Israel has issued three bird
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teresting. The Hibara Bustard
is a game bird and has hand
some plumage, is proud and
likes to strut, my pen friend
in Israel writes. The Scops
Owl of Galilee is pictured on
one stamp and the Purple
Heron on the third stamp. Let
tors from my pen-friends in
Viet Nam, Ghana, Malaya,
and Nepal are all franked
with such colorful stamps.
The Iron Curtain countries
are printing stamps galore.
Collectors should back A.
P. A. 100 per cent where
there "Black Blot" program
is concerned. Thoy have Just
issued a splendid leaflet. All
stamp collectors should have
it. The price is only 10 cents.
Yemen Is over printing her
stamps. My letter from Iraq
today is franked with beauti
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will over print their stamps
now, since the government
has been overthrown.
Our stamn cluh tnpmhprs
are fine workers in promot
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membership is well over 56,
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world.
It is wonderful to know our
new one cent stamp of Presi
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22, will picture a much young
er man, in 1863. Our first
stamp to picture Jackson
showed a tired old man with
pure white hair. This stamp
was nicknamed "Blurt .rr-w "
Our 1937 stamp showed a
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sue showed an older man
again. Our 1946 ixsuo shnwtrf
him quite old once again.
the entire world will issue
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of 100 years of service. This
collection alone would be
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March 22. the TTnlto.1 w
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on the defensive."
He said "Some of the dif
ficulties in Europe have
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"Whatever successes we
may have had in reducing
the military threat brought
with it in its wake other
problems."
But he said that if he
were asked whether he
would say the United States
was dotng as well this win
ter as it was doing last fall,
he would say "No. There is a
rhythm to personal and na
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as it flows and ebbs."
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