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...Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition from the Social Democratic Party's pacifist left wing force Schmidt's resignation...
...qualified for the job. He holds a Yale doctorate in ethics, worked on prisoner resettlement in Europe after World War II, wrote an influential 1957 book called Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, and has taught politics at three universities. He was for 37 years a minister of the pacifist Church of the Brethren. He worked as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1960, and was on the staff of the liberal Brookings Institution for twelve years. Since 1976 Lefever has headed his own conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "I'm a confirmed...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...
...West Germany, perhaps more than anywhere else, a veritable cult of détente has led at times to an almost obsequious public attitude toward Moscow. "Many people in this country do not want to upset the Russians. There is definitely a pacifist mood," says Christian Democrat Deputy Manfred Worner. Admits a West German manufacturer in Munich: "If it were a choice between giving the Russians more influence here and even a limited war, we would opt for the Russians." A youth group affiliated with the Free Democratic Party last week opposed the deployment of U.S. cruise missiles, claiming that...
...nongovernmental support last week. In a 48-page report entitled Western Security, the directors of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and its counterparts in Britain, France and West Germany laid out an agenda for joint action. Increasingly, the report appears at a time when leftists are trumpeting a pacifist cause in Europe. Among the recommendations: European countries should contribute men and matériel to any U.S. force that might be sent to the Middle East to block a threatened Soviet move. The U.S., Britain, France. West Germany and Japan should set up a "watch" group to monitor developments...