3. Americans Are Fed Up:

...A significant omen is a comment in Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet: "A comparison between the firm and reserved statements of U.S...

...The Washington Post has published a London dispatch claiming that Khrushchev has sent a secret memorandum to several foreign Communist parties accusing Chinese Party boss Mao Tse-tung of "disloyalty subversive agitation incitement to world war...

...It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others...

...There is a danger, too, of alarming world opinion, which is beginning to roll away from the USSR in some shock at its new isolationism...

...The aim presumably will be to discourage the growing industry in West Berlin and demoralize inhabitants by constant harassment of shipments...

...Then Fulbright spoke of the paramilitary operations which, it is known, interest President Kennedy and his new military advisor, General Maxwell Taylor...

...If Moscow gets rough over West Berlin, the pressures on the Administration to fight will be almost unendurable...

...The danger, which the President recognizes, is that this may set the nation to clamoring for a showdown with the Soviets...

...Our system guarantees certain basic rights to the individual, and it is these that have made the United States the focus of man's best hope of a way of life that is consistent with his quest for freedom and dignity...

...They are not the meticulously tough words of Lincoln White, the State Department spokesman...

...He, the average American, may dumbfound the world and himself...

...former Ambassador to India, recommended that the President create a consultative committee on Berlin...

...Meanwhile, the angry man watches the scene clenching and unclenching his fists...

...Or, are forces bending the Soviet Premier's arm...

...it has retreated itself only to find Soviet Russia as obdurate as ever and Nikita Khrushchev chuckling about the "tired runner," meaning us...

...Second, the Administration must make a painstaking search for Khrushchev's motives...

...Obviously, he was furious...

...But the other day John looked up from his morning newspaper and said, "I'm getting damned sick and tired of the Russians...

...It looks upon us through the eyes of Communist dogmatism: the fat, overfed, lazy, big-yak, no-action America...

...For several years, he has been a witty and savage critic of American foreign policy...

...But there is a point where this abruptly changes, and one can feel this in Washington today...

...he can say them in his sleep...

...Is this just the usual coo and spit tactic...

...This does not contemplate any appeasement...

...But if we fail our own values and ideals, ultimately we shall have failed ourselves...

...It means that our Government performs its highest function when it considers all the possibilities which can be undertaken to serve our basic principles and yet to avoid, if we can honorably do so, outright conflict— conflict which could develop into a thermonuclear war...

...it is that the city has become a symbol...

...The West has suffered a series of setbacks...

...This is a dangerous doctrine...

...Secretary of State Rusk and the threatening and aggressive statements of Khrushchev shows who is responsible for the tightening of the present situation...

...two former Ambassadors to Germany, Dr...

...I say to hell with them...

...If we are faithful to our own values, while following an intelligent, courageous and consistent line or policy, we are likely to find a high measure of the support we seek abroad...

...James Conant and David Bruce...

...This, I think, totally misses the point, and the real nature of our struggle...

...When we depart from these values we do so at our peril...

...A truck convoy will be stopped, and the drivers told a bridge ahead has washed out...

...They are not even the suddenly sober face of the President when he repeats a warning to the Russians at his press conference...

...This happens every day in thousands of communities, and for what men call good and just causes...

...Yelling about peace as if they had invented the word, and sabotaging any hope for a nuclear test ban, a Laos truce, and disarmament...

...these are as much a part of the Washington scene as the crab grass that comes with the hot days in June...

...The USSR, too, is having considerable trouble keeping up with its foreign aid commitments, and Russian discontent over shipments of goods overseas while the Soviet people are in need has been the subject of several lengthy reports from the American Embassy in Moscow...

...A railroad will be halted with word of an accident at the next crossing...

...Liberation brinkmanship U-2 CIA sword rattling," all were torn merrily to shreds...

...He was like a man who finds that the new car he bought with such hope and faith won't run...

...One educated guess is that the Communist tactic will be "nibbling...

...Senator John Sherman Cooper (R.-Ky...

...nothing would please Communist leaders more than to draw the United States into costly commitment of its resources to peripheral struggles in which the principal Communist powers are not themselves directly involved...

...This has taken Khrushchev outside of Moscow for a series of long and tiring trips to the provinces...

...East German planes will hold target practice in the main air lane...

...A general feeling has developed that the United States must prove to Khrushchev and the world that it is not a spent runner, and Berlin affords a likely test...

...He was ready to hit someone...

...Moscow is under bitter attack from Peking for "appeasement," and undoubtedly this dirty word is being used by Khrushchev's opponents elsewhere in the Communist bloc...

...that with some application we could beat the Communists at their own game...

...Third, Washington must try to determine exactly what the Russians will do on Berlin...

...Finally, the Kennedy Administration is searching for a number of alternatives, including military action, on which the United States, Britain and France can agree...

...Or, take another friend, a usually jolly correspondent who told the press table, "We should have an armored division ready, and if the Communists stop a truck convoy, escort it through by force...

...In his speeches, he has admitted pressures for more and better housing and consumer goods, as well as food shortages and industrial production lags...

...The signs of the new mood are not the windy speeches of generals and professional Communist-haters...

...Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in answer to calls for a hard policy, remarked: "What these voices are saying is that the United States is the strongest country in the world, and should not hesitate to commit its strength to the active defense of its policies anywhere outside the Communist empire...

...President Kennedy and his advisers are involved in a very delicate operation, much like trying to cross a rushing stream on submerged stones...

...There is a violence latent in the American people...

...This comment can be multiplied all over Washington...

...Senator Cooper added: "I think every aspect of our policy about Germany and Berlin ought to be considered and reviewed in the days ahead...

...He said: "It is suggested with some frequency that U.S...

...Ambassador to the United Nations, that the USSR genuinely wished to disarm, and that a new era of peace was being held back by a mysterious conspiracy between the Dulles brothers and unnamed West Germans...

...But to sit and watch it happen to a nation is an eerie experience...

...First, it must put on a show of strength and united opinion which will convince the USSR that it would be unwise to force the Berlin issue...

...I think it would be much better, before we come to [the point of a Soviet peace treaty with East Germany], to continue to talk to Russia about our rights of access, and to ascertain what ideas Russia has now about such rights of access if she should make a treaty with East Germany...

...Rather, it is the values not only of liberty and individual freedom, but also of international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose...

...when we become angry we use our fists or kick or slap...

...The fact is that our greatest strength—indeed our greatest asset in the struggle— is that ours is a permissive system, challenged by one that is totalitarian...

...The Berlin pressure was a kind of last straw, as President Kennedy indicated at his press conference...

...In recent weeks, two Senators have reacted to this process with troubled words...

...Russia is also in something of an economic and agricultural crisis...

...It would include the two former High Commissioners to Germany, General Lucius Clay and John McCloy...

...The signs of the new mood are in the casual conversation of hundreds of officials, onlookers and correspondents...

...It is not that West Berlin itself is so terribly important...

...To put it simply, America is getting its belly full of Soviet Russia...

...Earlier Senator J. William Fulbright (D.-Ark...

...policies would be improved by an infusion of the more mischievous tactics employed by the Communists...

...He scarcely mentioned foreign policy, and then only to reassure his audiences of his alleged desire for peace and disarmament...

...It's as though a man arose from a good meal, carefully folded his napkin, stood for a moment letting anger and doubt and frustration fill him, and then walked quickly next door and hit his neighbor full in the face...

...two former Secretaries of State, Dean Acheson and Christian Herter...

...and Congressional leaders...

...This is something that the USSR, for all its elaborate intelligence system, does not understand...

...He believed with James Wadsworth, the former U.S...

...Take my friend John...