Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR JOBS AND THE MAN I found Irving Kristol's article, "Jobs and the Man" (NL, January 6), to suffer from one basic, recurring weakness common to many authors on the subject of...
...He then suggests that instead of government projects, private industry should be induced to invest in public works by manipulation of the tax power...
...Los Alios, Calif...
...On the contrary, all the Soviet efforts —harassments, threats, military actions, etc...
...Tao apparently disregards such fears, especially on the frontier issue...
...More broadly still, given our world-wide involvement, we have to be able to negotiate with the Soviet Union —and some day with the Chinese—without allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by others into a sterile posture of passivity or excessive militancy...
...Realizing its political and economic potential and the advantages of friendly cooperation with other countries, Germany may not consider it beneficial to strive to dominate Eastern Europe...
...No such danger existed when the Communist coup was engineered in Prague or in Budapest in 1956...
...Kristol's article is an interesting examination of some of the problems encountered in securing an accelerated public works program...
...At the same time, probably no German government would recognize the Oder-Neisse line, which by moral standard is neither right nor just, except perhaps to the Poles...
...This means retraining plus area redevelopment plus stimulation of the economy through a tax cut, plus increasing demand by a comprehensive and successful war on poverty and discrimination, plus public works...
...But it is equally and even more necessary that the U.S...
...We have seen too clearly that the desires of a corporation are not typically based on a community's best interests...
...It is in our interest and in the German interest to dispel these fears...
...We also favor public works built by the public...
...Brzezinski's reasons for rejecting Acheson's counsel are not valid...
...Washington, D.C James B. Carey President, International Union of Electrical Workers THE GERMAN VETO Despite Zbigniew Brzezinski's arguments to the contrary ("The Danger of A German Veto," NL, January 20), I believe Dean Acheson is correct in suggesting that "in making political and military judgments affecting Europe a major—often the major— consideration should be their effect on the German people and the German government...
...On the general problem of AmericanSoviet negotiations, I can only reiterate that we have a special responsibility in Berlin and Germany where our forces are stationed as a result of World War II...
...This, incidentally, applies equally to our policy toward Mainland China...
...That the Soviets took control over Eastern Europe by force does not disprove the proposition that they are helped to stay there by the fears, real or imaginary, that many Eastern Europeans have of Germany...
...In this way, each community participating would be able to determine how best to use the opportunity to meet the community's needs...
...as a global power should maintain a global perspective in shaping the American-Soviet relationship...
...The policy of "togetherness" with the Soviets initiated by President Kennedy did not and will not make the Soviets voluntarily adopt a soft line in Europe, unless some German interests are sacrificed...
...To do this does not constitute a German veto, as Brzezinski contended...
...I also believe Acheson right in saying that the U.S...
...Pung-Fai Tao apparently favors a stand-pat and talk-tough policy...
...All of the stimuli to the railroad builders succeeded not only in an inefficient railroad system (the Nickel Plate Road is a testimonial to the weakness of that approach) but also created the celebrated Robber Barons...
...It is also wishful thinking to expect that Moscow would ever "in any way contribute to the creation of the preconditions necessary for the eventual return of Eastern Europe, and particularly East Germany, to the European fold...
...The Soviets are not stationing troops in Eastern Europe because so "many East Europeans fear that the removal of Russian influence would inevitably be followed by a return of German predominance in the region...
...should consider the interests of all its allies, whether major or minor...
...should not "continue the BritishAmerican-Soviet talks about Germany" because they create "uneasiness and suspicion" in Germany itself...
...It is necessary, then, that "the U.S...
...But he injures his own case when he offers us the lure of doing for public works what was done to stimulate construction of the United States railroads...
...It is highly questionable whether the East Europeans would prefer the present Soviet dominance to a future, but by no means inevitable, German one...
...To characterize this as Kennedy's "policy of togetherness with the Soviets" is gratuitous and not to the point...
...If there are political difficulties in achieving this program, the answer is to increase voter awareness, not pander to special interests that fatten themselves on public apathy...
...Kristol states that "public works" is the one best answer to increasing and chronic unemployment...
...First, I believe that unemployment requires a comprehensive program of complementary undertakings...
...are precisely geared to prevent this...
...I favor a policy of peacefully taking advantage of the growing division in the Communist World, including the decline of Soviet control over Eastern Europe, for the purpose of eventually restoring Eastern Europe to the European community of nations...
...DEAR EDITOR JOBS AND THE MAN I found Irving Kristol's article, "Jobs and the Man" (NL, January 6), to suffer from one basic, recurring weakness common to many authors on the subject of conquering unemployment...
...Pung-Fai Tao Zbigniew Brzezinski replies: Mr...
...Otherwise, the global leadership would fail globally and the free world would succumb to Communist salami tactics...
...We favor public works undertaken cooperatively between the various levels of government...
Vol. 47 • March 1964 • No. 5
