THE COLD WAR'S NEW PHASE
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends The Cold War's New Phase By William Henry Chamberlin APPARENT jSOYTET WILLINGNESS to lift the Berlin blockade opens a new phase in, the cold war. It marks temporary...
...For:w%.the Justices saying> U: tS^nSSKi Vea*1 WUt<T'free'than one man impaired from speaking the truth...
...on the response to such proposals, if l)kijitwM^M''se still better if the West took' the wind out of Soviet sails by making appropriate counter-proposals...
...The Supreme Courts 5-4 deciison to reverse the conviction of a Chicago hate-monger is thus tothe best traditions of | American Jurispni...
...MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than the blockade's end may be the political line which Soviet negotiators V(ill take atthe meeting of Foreign Ministers...
...e IN THE NEW ZIGZAG of the permanent war of nerves, Russia is trying to play on the mercurial temperament of the American people, The sensationalism that is deliberately cultivated in our press and radio renders its a bad service...
...Everybody talks about bureaucracy, but Hoover Commissions do something about it...
...It indicates a shift in -Soviet tactics in the extremely important struggle for Germany...
...A year ago there were too many irresponsible rumors of an imminent shooting war...
...In the case of Dr...
...In any case, we owe Mr...
...He was never a member of the Nazi Party...
...Multiply this by 500, allow for alliances and Cloakroom deals, and the proposal to permit a majority of either House or Congress to veto a Presidential reorganization measure appears to be sheer folly...
...A Wrong That Should Be Righted AN OLD SCHOLAR AND JOURNALIST is serving a sentence of ten years imprisonment, imposed by an American military commission in China, in the fortress of Landsberg, in the American Zone in desmany...
...Test of Freedom Th>Ug£f fr*»d6nyi| tHeHsn^ty ©t a righteous maj&rtty to give leeway td aU torts of-urn Pleasant rni^Oea.BehWthii in the words of Justice Holmes, in "the power of truth in the open market...
...The "United States and its West European friends must steer a careful middle jCourse between blunt intransigence—which would alienate wavering sections of, public .opinion here and abroad,' give plausibility to1 Soviet "peace" propaganda, and increase the everpresent danger of failing into a diplomatic trap --and giving up something of real value in exchange for sham Soviet concessions...
...Initiative, imagination, flexibility, swiftness of decision—these qualities will be required in abundance by American diplomacy in the new phase of the cold war...
...But two jxnulitibn* art1 essential First, there should be^omplele"re*., toration of poliUcjl-fjod civil liberty in the Soviet Zone:"a clean sweep of concentration camps, forced labor in uranium mines, communist para-military formations, Soviet control of industries...
...It creates the impression that the world situation is either much worse or much better than it really is...
...Second, Soviet troops should be withdrawn not only from Germany, but from Austria, Poland, Hungary and Rumania...
...American diplomacy will be tested anew for firmness, clear-sightedness and...
...The choice before Congress is clears either to let the'President revamp his branch of lha government all the way down the line, or to yield to tha lobbyists and pressurecookies, hamstring the President, and thus end up like Zone's tortoise—shuffling alone/, getting nowhere...
...It would'be well to recall the lesson conveyed by a Russian proverb...
...Mueller has been freed from an imprisonment to,which he never shoufc-have been subjected...
...Take it into the house, too," says the counsellor...
...He was charged with issuing a news letter in Peking, compiled from foreign radio broadcasts, during the interval between German and Japanese surrenders...
...flexibility...
...Joseph Alsop recently told of Arkansas Senator McClellan's fondness for the Army Engineers Corps...
...On his next visit the peasant is* in complete despair...
...In this form, at least a great majority of the Commission's recommendations would become reality...
...Well, take out the goat," says .the main of wisdom...
...For it appears that each little government bureau has its own Congressional buddy...
...If Congress is worried about its prerogatives, then perhaps reorganisation steps should be subject to veto by a concurrent resolution of both bouses...
...In some ways a Soviet Government willing to negotiate, to discuss, to go through., the motions of Offering concessions, is more dangerous than a clearly truculent and inflexible Soviet Government...
...Then he returns to thank his adviser effusively for making Urn so happy...
...They may even suggest modifica'tion of the Oder-Neisse frontier and provision of facilities for return of some of the rtU*Jk«s of uprooted East German and Sudeten refugees, although Polish and Czech objections may abort tins Isjrt offer...
...He is Dr...
...It marks temporary abandonment of Soviet designs for overrunning western Europe by a mixture of internal subversion and use or threat of military force...
...You have a goat...
...One suspects that the East Germans—who have known Soviet occupation—will be even more staunchly antiCommunist, once they are free to express their feelings, than the West Germans, whose irritation has been directed chiefly against the western occupation policies...
...The pig and the goat have made the hut quite unlivable...
...This is obviously in a very different category front killing.or maltreatment of prisoners or other actions which could fairly be called war crirqes...
...We hope there will be complete American...
...Their singular achievements should ijiurplre states and municipalities to give their governmental machines much-needed overhauling...
...There is no reason to feel grateful to Moscow for giving up an experiment in blackmail which has' cost us lives and money...
...HoW far he was from sharing the nonsensical Nazi racist ideas is evident from the .fact that his wife is Chinese...
...Take your pig into the hut," is the surprising advice...
...Now there,is a.tendency to look on the lifting of the blockade as the end of our troubles with Moscow...
...TO REJECT THE IDEA OF GERMAN UNITY offhand would immensely weaken our moral and political position...
...What was his crime...
...If Russia rejects reasonable guarantees of free elecUbns/respbnsibility for blocking German unity will be Moscow's, not the West's...
...Seems they do a lot of work, spend a lot of money,' in Arkansas...
...course, he is exactly where he was before he was given the idea of setting up a domestic zoo...
...Its Work has been hailed by ADA liberals and Hearst editorialists...
...ddfo...
...The peasant comes back a few days later, complaining that he Js worse off than ever...
...Actually, of...
...A poor peasant, living in an overcrowded hut, goes to the wise man of the village and asks how he can improve his lot...
...commissions One hopes that the ClvU Liberties Union add like-minded organizations will Uke up this case and not let it drop until Dr...
...Russian negotiators »*e likely to suggest fusion of the Soviet and Western zones and radical curtailment, if not amiplete ovation, of foreign troops...
...Soviet-Western relations were not cordial then...
...Given fulfillment of these conditions, the West would have little to fear and much to hope from a unified Germany...
...Th^ionieteftcet at Moscow jn the spring of lM7r«aUndonmDwembe>rIW7f were stalemated because of Russia's inflexible attitude...
...They have demonstrated that men of goodwill can, without partisanship, apply our vaunted efficiency to democratic government as well as to profitable industry...
...Hoover and his Commission a vote of thanks...
...On his next visit the peasant looks much more cheerful.* MNow take out the pig," is the-next bit of advice...
...Yet quite possibly this Commission's excellent' proposals will end up pickled in the Congressional pork barrel...
...I But this time it is likely that* the Soviet5 Government, having failed to win Germany by propaganda and blockade, will try subtlermethods.,\ '..' % ; We must be prepared for Soviet proposals which wTil appeal not primarily to German Communists (certainly a small rnjBority), but to Germans who wish to see* their country united (certainly • a large majSrilyT...
...Ad CdHtiHss*** The Pork Barrel sHE HOOVER COMMISSION was,set up by 1 Republican Congress, staffed by-non. political experts of both parties, and praised highly by a Democratic President...
...A streamlining might hurt some of the Senator's constituents...
...Brittah-French unity...
...Herbert Muetier, whom I met in Peking in" 1027 and remember as a very cultivated and urbane scholar...
...The lifting of the blockade merely restores the situation, which existed in Berlin last spring...
...Mueller there seems to have been an arrogant, irresponsible exceeding 'pf^ihfVUmi^ .^h^v'tbJ^Jb^e 'bsj«r self* imposed'by American War crimes...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 21
