Show ODAY DAY and to TOMORROW ow by WALTER UPPMANN I 1 for ror the tb lor love of ike he As gen eisenhower Elsen hower returns ind lid the country gets set to listen to a him ifland iflnd vfind myself remember ing ng a lady who liked to invite all orts sorts of people to dinner and to 0 have some but not too much serious conversation conver gatlon afterwards bedfor 3efore befor the slower eaters had inkshed inlshed fwshd dessert she would rap on n her glass order every one to be e quiet and would men then say we have with us this evening he the ambassador from S san a n marino who Is as you all know the wisest and wittiest man in europehe europe Europ eHe he will tell us with that wisdom that wit vat and that immense knowledge 6owledge rowledge for which be is so famous just exactly where when ami and why europe I 1 Is 9 going wherever it is Ls going 1 I think there will luat just be lime for that before we have our coffee j once when the poor ambassador from san marino was obviously wilting under the ladys buildup build up a most considerate and tactful man also a guest was heard beard to say sara and while you are about ltike lt41re lt laike Ike polish off ada aan africa in and dCosta costa rica we can wait tor for our dour coffee coffees A certain consideration is it seems to me due to sen gen elsen 1 hower bower and it is moreover I 1 essenval ess essential enVal to the success of hla his great mission missi orL it would be con can sl si derate if we remember that he has been on a whirlwind tour of twelve capital cities in about no time at all he has had to ride tor for many hours on end in an airplane he has sa s1 slept e9t1 a according cc ording to my y a arithmetic r ith metic in t at t least fourteen te en d different ferent if beds he has had to seem fresh interested and happy at one or two press conferences feren ces per day at one or two banquets per day and at many c ceremonial ere monial visits he has had bad to listen attentively in all languages to the ritual of official platitudes which precedes for farj forj a man of his eminence even clerf cverf when it is not a substitute candid undid and informing conversation cion now a grateful but inhumanly Incon inconsiderate aerate republic is waiting expectantly expect aly tly to have him make six sx ax authoritative reports which will determine our course in europe aurore eurore that Is more than can fairly I 1 be expected of any man and it Is important indeed necessary it see seems ms tome to me to deflate and downgrade t the h e expectations which have been built up tor for gen elsenhowers eisenhowers Elsen Eisen howers return the things which he be can do and must be helped to do and which he is peculiarly fitted to do will be 1 made n de even more difficult than t they hay are if too great expectations are aroused about what he Is to say if he be Is put in the false position of b havone havlne to decide yes or 10 1.0 no onil on a F policy 011cy to which except on certain U ae qe questions scions stions of method the nation alo tlo 1 Is thoroughly commit ted we must I 1 think deflate ahe ihe jhe notion that he is going to say either that europe cannot be defended or that the european nations eions tions are about to do all the impossible 1 things thatmrihoover thatmrhoover I 1 for ford examvlo ecamp examp insists that they must do before we do anything more in one way or another gen elsenhower eisenhower Elsen hower Is bound to say what Is in fact the self evident truth that a serious effort to increase the military power of we warn wfrn ttpm ir drw nrw nn ana to brove orwe nrove our nur own solidarity with the fate nf of enrow vnrow rwirnna I 1 1 msential ovtentlsil not only to the survival but bitt to there hawhtttlftn bahilltotton of eurove eurooe eurone to rv sav ON th I 1 it not nnt ant to gav sav tuat the Id defence idefeme efeme of r europe euront eurott in the iwase iwnse nee of an ability to wl v 1 the red rpd arm depends olela olelv ft or even oven decisively on theground thegroxind the ground armies which can be stationed in western europe nobody in europe really believes that an army capable of defeating the red army can be assembled quickly in europe every one who has looked into the situation realizes that the armies of western europe will long be very much weaker than the armies of the soviet orbit and that these western armies amles ables can be formed only if for other reasons and by other means the red army Is deterred from and is persuaded against an invasion to the european armies before are of any serious military importance the exaggerated and misleading idea that the of europe depends on armies including our few divisions is the product products I 1 believe not of an objective estimate and a considered policy based on that estimate it is almost entirely an attempt to sell a good idea to a congress and to a people who are deemed not able or willin willing to understand the real rea reasons ons for the policy the real reason for arming re4rpilng re the western nations for organiz organic ing an atlantic army with an american commander for enlarging our own force forces on the european continent and for re arming annlng anning in any form of all the west germans germant Is that this if Is essential in order to restore the inner stability the national self respect the diplomatic weight tho the sovereign authority and independence of th great na nations eions tions of our western society oclcty sociely thl this effort which Is more on one of reconstruction than of heer sheer defense li Is something that has to be done if europe Is ever to be anything but a satellite atelltte atell tte contl conal nent the eastern half undr andr tho the domination of russia th wt west ern half a dep dcpendny nd ney ni ot ti united state states there are ome some who would gay say that the american people are not capable of understand inn ing thl this true and constructive reason for or our policy tiey would argue that nothing can be tccompllshed vecomplished except b by ter terrorlx terrl herrl rl ini ing the people into yoang yolng doing th ahn thn right rliht thing for or the wrong rca ren song sons and BO so they tell th tho ami continued on pago page 15 TODAY AMD AND TOMOHHOW TOMon now C ntlniif 111m im pie awe 1we kit IM can people that unless unle4tq we send end beveral gevcral feveral more divisions to germany unless we drive the british i h and the french to rearm re arm to some theoretical level b by some near date which Is 1 officially fflr y to bo be regarded as doomsday the russians will be in paris the russians will own the industries of western europe london will be untenable and the school children ch ildren of washington a hington will be iving face down in the corridors of their schools as we are now teaching them to do in order to save themselves from the atomic bomb I 1 do not believe that we can make strength through terror power through hysterics or influence through nightmares if for example it Is true that there is to be war in europe this year what in the name of common sense Is the good of fending sending more american arms to be captured and more american soldiers to be trapped Is it not as plain as plain can be that if the eisenhower Elsen hower army can be formed at all as it should and must be it can be formed only it if there Is reasonable certainty that war is not going to come in the next few years how can anyone who thinks th inks about it expect the germans to join the army when they hear from americans that the war may begin just about the time when they have signed up and got themselves identified for special attention when the russians slans occupy western germany the arguments which are supposed to frighten congress into doing the right thing about rearmament frighten the europeans into a belief that we think their position is hopeless the notion that tears fears of imminent doom can make us strong is in fact so dangerously silly that one can explain it only on the ground that those who practice it have fallen in love with the sound of their own voices and have forgotten who is in the audience listening to what they say |