Show The Truce I Realization of a truce in inthe inthe inthe the Middle East which has appeared an impossible dream so often in recent years isone is isone isone one of the most significant accomplishments of the Nixon Nixon Nixon Nix Nix- on Administration in the field of foreign policy to date THE TRUCE could be broken brok brok- en at any moment of course nor is it certain to produce a final settlement Yet no one can question the initial necessity of such a truce if a peace treaty is somehow to be worked out among Arabs and Jews in inthe inthe inthe the area NOR CAN one treat lightly the success of the American effort to win cooperation of ofa ofa ofa a sort from all those involved including the Russians President Nixon could almost reelect reeled himself by concluding the Vietnamese war and producing producing pro pro- producing a peace treaty guaranteeing guaranteeing guaranteeing guaran guaran- teeing Israels Israel's existence THOUGH the war continues in Vietnam and may resume along the Suez and elsewhere in the Middle East there seems now a chance that by late 1971 or 1972 the two conflicts might have been at last brought under control If in 1972 the President confronts confronts confronts con con- fronts the opposition having ended a war which had lasted ten years and settlement of an emotional and highly explosive explosive explosive ex ex- ex- ex plosive crisis in the Middle East these facts will speak loudly in the field of foreign relations |