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Show i3eliin Ji lite JJeadfined What has Moscow really up in the air is that, while the West is growing stronger in Western Europe, standing fast in Berlin and building NATO and West German military strength, Reo China may begin putting pressure pres-sure on the Soviet Unions' Far Eastern frontier, s Red Chinese mapmakers who disputed the Indian frontier before be-fore the attacks are now issuing maps disputing Red China's Siberian Si-berian frontier. Red Chinese troop garrisons along the Soviet border are being strengthened. , Open clashes between Chinese and Soviet troops along the Sino Soviet border are reported. The Chinese people are being told that only conquest of fertile So- Temporarily, at least, Washington's Wash-ington's favorite parlor game is neither guessing President Kennedy's Ken-nedy's next Cabinet resignation, hsi relations with the 88th Congress Con-gress nor the outcome of the '64 election campaign1- M iru i ? Even Castro, Cuba, Berlin and Khrushchev have had to take a back seat to the Chinese puzzle that has been' perplexing official offi-cial and unofficial Washington and confounding the world. There is no end of speculation about why Red China has chosen this time to invade the disputed Indian border areas, denounce Khurshchevism, and then waver between war and peace,- "Peaceful "Peace-ful Co-existence" and Stalinism. Secretry of State Dean Rusk has added to the speculation by injecting a startling and mystifying mysti-fying note in interenational relations re-lations with his statement that "we are on the edge of unprecedented unpre-cedented events that could affect the peace of the whole world." viet bibena could solve their food problem. Chinese jingoists are demanding Russian ouster from oil rich Sinkiang. Chinese extremists are putting pressure on Outer Mongolia, the Russian buffer state, to slip behind the Bamboo Curtain. Russia can see the handwriting handwrit-ing on the wall. Historically, Moscow has feared invasion of the Eastern hordes and sees that aggressive Red Chinese Communism Com-munism is becoming a potential threat. If you talk to the man on the street inside Russia you see he is much more fearful of another an-other Chinese sweep over Russia than he is of the West. The Kremlin is scared. It believes it can hoodwink the West into defeat de-feat with Peaceful Coexistence. It knows Red China is aggressive and only understands force. For all its crocodile tears over Red China's Indian attack, Moscow Mos-cow would like to see Red China embroiled in a long costly war in Southeast Asia with the West, ' notably the US, and come in and pick up the pieces after both have been bled white. A Red China embroiled with India would not be able for ages if ever to attack the Chinese- There were unexplained reports re-ports from the Kremlin that Khrushchev, stung by his failure to establish Soviet missile bases in Cuba was preparing to unleash un-leash a new peace campaign. West German Chancellor Adenauer Ade-nauer now openly fearful of new Western compromises on Berlin was warning Washington to be wary of new peace offerings made by the Soviets just because they have been embarrassed by setbacks in Cuba and by the Red Chinese. ' ' There were mounting reports as well as official "trial balloons" bal-loons" that Russia might be willing will-ing to reach Berlin and disarmament disarm-ament compromises with the West in exchange for a non-aggression treaty between the Allied Al-lied North Atlantic Treaty Organization Or-ganization and Soviet Warsaw Pact. ' .v This whole apparent turnabout in the Cold War began when Mr. Khrushchev ooenly displayed his Kussian irontier. For this reason the West must be wary of counting on Soviet aid to pressure Red China into retreating from India. There is nothing Moscow would like to see more than Red China and the West bogged down in a costly, cost-ly, bloody war leaving the Kremlin Krem-lin free to grow stronger and move elsewhere. , However, if this ploy should fail, the Soviets would like the West to guarantee its own frontier fron-tier against attack. If this sounds incredible, Moscow appears to be shaping the Berlin crisis to accomplish this. Reports emanating from the Kremlin indicate that Moscow may be "willing" to ease the Berlin "crisis" in return for an East-West non-aggression pact that would secure Russia's European Euro-pean frontier. Ironically, this would probably prob-ably have its greatest value to Moscow in the Far East. Soviets are reasonably sure that Western Allies would never attack the Soviets first and that the old bugaboo of German militarism is now under NATO control. What Russia wants is an East-West East-West non-aggression treaty that would commit both East and West to come to each other's aid if either is attacked, regardless regard-less of the aggressor. As far fetched as it may seem now Russia Rus-sia would like to have NATO's aid if it's attacked by the Red Chinese. ... missiles in Cuba, withdrew them and was plunged into a major ideological dispute with Red China over whether Communist strategy should be aggressively or peacefully co-existent. How do all the pieces fit together? to-gether? Why is Red China's attack on heretofore Neutralist India having such an effect on hopes for a peaceful settlement in Berlin? This more, than the future of Castro, or Nehru is the really bir issue perplexing even the keenest observers in the Cold War. Washington's policymakers policymak-ers are convinced they know the answer. Red China's invasion of India was a bold bid for strategic military mili-tary advantage in all of Southeast South-east Asia. By leaping over India Mountain frontier Peking laid the whole of tndia , and all of Southeast Asia open to attack whenever it chooses, it threatens to split Pakistan from the South East .Asia .Treaty Organization, might push Burma, Thailand and Nepal into the Red Chinese orbit and ? might add riches of India's Assam to its own foundering war and economic machine." ' Viewed from Moscow, China's attack on , India is seen as dramatic dra-matic declaration that the Red Chinese have 1 embarked on an aggressive . expansionism 'the Kremlin is no longer able to control.. ' Most Cold War observers believe be-lieve Moscow is not too unhappy over Red China's attack on India, In-dia, despite its crocodile tears, publicly stated fears and open admission that a Moscow-Peking split formally exists. |