Show Pell Plan On Germany Has The Tho hottest idea In some quarters concerning the West East cold cold war and the German Gennan question is the Pell plan ItS author Is Rhode Island Island Is- Is land Senator Claiborne Pell WIZEN WilEN Pell first advanced his idea then President John JohnF F F. F Kennedy evinced a real Interest Interest In- In terest in It But when it was wal clear West Germans could never accept it the idea was relegated to where here it belongs Now It is being revived again and nd some hope that President Lyndon Johnson will embrace it and make it the goal of U. U S. S foreign foreign for for- eign policy on Germany IN BRIEF the PeU Pell plan is this That the United States offer the Soviet Union an agreement in which we would recognize East Germany and the Oder line as the eastern German Getman boundary In inI return for the ceding of the Berlin Helmstedt autobahn to toI West Germany PeU Pell claims the advantages of this would be that we gain i full fuU rights to the corridor we have been precariously using aU all these years to Berlin without giving up one inch of territory or one human being to the communists AND THAT claim is true of cOurse course Th The fallacy f in it is that we have been saying all these yeas years swe we have f full rights right's to the corridor to Berlin U If these claims claims' have be been n right all these years and we have been willing to fight f for r them why should sh uld we we now offer recognition rec- rec re of the Illegal East German regime to get such rights which we have maintained main main- tamed at great risk for 18 years |