Word: reston
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...vast city rooms of New York City's seven big dailies were melancholy and quiet after weeks of shutdown. But for a few valued hands, like New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. there was still work to be done...
After all. the Times's small outpost editions in Paris and Los Angeles were still going. And 60 U.S. papers subscribe to Reston's column as part of the Times's syndicate service. So with his usual square-jawed Scots honesty. Reston sat down to write a column on the subject that interested him most...
...policy of submerging every substantive intra-NATO disagreement under the blanker title of Challenges to American Leadership has reached a new peak of boorishness this month. Thus, writing under a Times Syndicate by line in the local Herald, Mr. Rusk's press secretary, Mr. Reston, pronounced-ex cathedra, as it were- this threat...
...Second, Reston's clumsy threat was directed at Adenauer after clear signs that Germany would oppose De Gaulle's veto on British entry. Why Adenauer should be so addressed is unclear, since it takes only France's vote to bar Britain from the Market now or ever. A German blackball would be not only unlikely but redundant. Evidently, when Washington says Germany they mean France, just as when Moscow says Albania they mean China...
...other sovereign states for their existence; and Kennedy has just provided excellent proof of this in the case of Skybolt. But France is being told that doubts regarding American willingness to jeopardize Detroit for the sake of, say, West Berlin are tantamount to treason. And such doubts might, as Reston clearly meant to suggest, result in a repetition of the American withdrawals from Europe after the two World Wars. That would really prove De Gaulle's point...