Show I THE WHITE PAPER I By DENNIS WHITE It has been over a month since Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko of the Soviet Union to try and arrive at some accord on the Berlin At that time it was stated that no basis had been found for fruitful negotiations by the big In the time that has lapsed since the end of that little or no action has been YET THE RULERS of the Soviet Union keep reiterating that the western powers should do something positive about averting the danger of war which exists at the Yet it is a war which is threatened only by the Russians They seem determined that is must be the West which offers the concessions if any are to be This poses an interesting If the Soviets really what then nothing that the west gives them can do much more than delay On the other hand if they do not want then anything that is given them will be nothing less than the fruit of blackmail given in a futile attempt at If the first of these postulates is then there seems to be little point in negotiating any if the second is and this seems to at the most then another thought comes to as it is President Kennedy feels that it is still necessary for the West to agree on an approach to then it would seem to follow that we must convince the leaders of all the that we mean that it would be genuinely unwise for them to push too hard about agreements pertaining directly to the status of West Berlin and the whole German problem in THIS WOULD seem necessary in the light of past agreements that the West has made with the Such agreements could no more be relied upon than those which Russia is seeking to tear Taken all these seem to be the only courses of action we Yet it is most important that they be considered from the point of view that the especially the Rus tear war every bit as much as we It must also be pointed out that Russia must realize that any war she chooses to whether in Berlin or would be a war that would have to be directed not only towards but also directed towards the United States and her Good morning old wherever you |