Split-level Diplomacy
Sir, —At this juncture of minimum of world order and maximum of hazard in which few politicians say what they mean, and more still rarely mean what they say, that challenge of necessity for face-saving (U.S. bogged in aggression in Vietnam, U.S.S.R. for base In Mediterranean) must relieve the prehistoric fears of satellite nations tagged to catastrophe. The advance in nuclear and pestilential weapons in cost and human hazard not only
defeats planned obsolescence in the sale of concessional weapons but leaves little political or survival value in the war system under the primacy of its present control. The “new form of United Nations presence” (Brown) and “new world element” (de Gaulle) infer a new pattern of reaction to international disputes, with the people as the ultimate locus of all sovereignty, having in mind the rapid advance of the Malthusian wolf and the historical experiences of history. Faith in higher values is essential.—Yours, etc., WEST WIND. June 27, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31407, 28 June 1967, Page 16
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