Dear Editor
Dear Editor Dubious Detente President Nixon seems determined to provide the Russian Communists with advanced technology and up-to-date equipment in exchange for promises that they will, some years...
...Alfred Baker Lewis...
...They, like us...
...Many of these companies made contributions to the Committee to Re-Elect the President, either openly or secretly...
...October 1) suggests, the Communists simply cannot be so trusted...
...For k amounts to trusting Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev lo keep his word, and as Hans Morgenthau ("The Danger of Detente...
...Here, for example, is what Brezhnev said in Moscow on December 21, 1972: "The Communist Party of the Soviet Union has proceeded and continues to proceed on the basis of the continuing class struggle of the two systems, capitalist and socialist...
...In calculating the risks of dealing with the Soviets, we should not overlook the fact that the President's judgment of people is notoriously bad...
...Dean, and others—have been convicted of wrong doings, are under indictment, or are currently suspected of breaking the law...
...want to make their people happier with more consumer goods, and this can be done only by cutting down on the enormous expenditures both of us are now making in a mad arms race...
...The real reason Nixon wants to go ahead with trade deals is that the American corporations who would be selling sophisticated and expensive equipment to the USSR expect to reap big profits out of them...
...It could not be otherwise since the world outlook and class aims of socialism and capitalism are opposed and irreconciliable" (italics mine...
...Dear Editor Dubious Detente President Nixon seems determined to provide the Russian Communists with advanced technology and up-to-date equipment in exchange for promises that they will, some years from now, deliver oil and natural gas to us...
...The Secretary of State is not merely selling out his fellow Jews in Russia, but also barring any effort to make the USSR a freer society, one more nearly in accord with American ideals and practices...
...In this area their interests and ours are the same...
...I find it particularly amazing that Henry Kissinger urges trade on a credit basis and under most-favored-nation conditions, and opposes Senator Jackson's humanitarian amendment...
...In view of the public statements of Soviet leaders and Nixon's known unreliability in judging character, it is important that in any such trade deals, we should immediately get back the equivalent of what we give them...
...Riverside, Conn...
...We should, of course, also accept Senator Henry Jackson's proposal to deny most-favored-nation status to the Russians until they freely allow Jews and others who want to emigrate to do so...
...They, like us, want to avoid mutual destruction...
...Supporting the stand Senator Jackson has taken, it should be stressed, does not mean we would be blocking attempts to reach an agreement with the Russians on limiting the production of nuclear and other offensive weapons...
...This is a terribly unwise course...
...Many of his closest associates and advisers—Agnew, Mitchell...
...Stans, Haldeman, Ehrlichman...
Vol. 56 • November 1973 • No. 22
