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...proposal requires a quid pro quo and leaves nothing to guesswork. If Moscow really wants to end the peril of fallout (the Moscow test series last October gave North America the heaviest dose of radioactive material ever), it has no excuse for further delay. Meanwhile, as soon as the President lifts the ban on underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast...
...limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military, and finally to a simple "freeze" that would preserve the military status quo...
...last you Russians realize the value of international control, such as the West has been advocating all along. Of course, you want East Berlin included in the change." Such an approach would show a more aggressive and effective policy, not a mere "contentment with the very miserable status quo...
...status quo cannot remain," Vidic added. "It is in human nature to change, but with coexistence these changes need not cause international conflicts...
...does on the problem of West Berlin. The present divided Germany, though, holds dangers for both sides. East Germany might embarrasingly erupt into rebellion against its masters, and the West might eventually face an independent West German attempt to negotiate with Moscow over East Germany. Thus preserving the status quo offers no ultimate solution...