TUESDAY. MAY 16. 1961
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Policy Cycles
by f'o el myers
Communist international psychology, which follows
a pattern aimed at generating alternating periods of hope
and frustration, is again approaching the crest of a cycle.
The climb towards the crest of this simple cycle, which
Americans can’t seem to understand, began soon after
Khrushchev destroyed last
May’s summit conference.
With minor variations, the
usual pattern is being followed.
Relatively insignificant issues
are conceded by the Russians
in order to accelerate the climb
toward the summit. These con
cessions a;
immed i a t e 1
viewed as >
change of Com
munist pol i c
directed at im
proving inter
national rel:
lions, but the.
are merely bai
to catch Unc?
Sam.
Khrushc h e
has been ah
to arrange three Myers
summits in the past six years,
none of which achieved con
crete results.
Some people argue that
nothing can be lost by a face
io-face meeting of the two K's.
This reasoning is integrated
with falacies. Every unsuccess
ful summit conference repre-
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makers.
Khrushchev plays the dual
role of peace-maker and power
man. He plays the propaganda
loaded role of peace-maker to
the large Communist and neu
tral audience by initially call
ing for the conference.
Then as the scene shifts to
the conference itself, he be
comes the center of attraction.
The waiting world knows he
holds the key to the summit’s
ultimate success.
President Kennedy criticized
“summit diplomacy” in his
presidential campaign, but un
fortunately pressure at home
and abroad has forced him to
reverse that stand.
The people applying that
pressure believe a face-to-face
meeting will allow Kennedy to
prove that he’s not a pushover
for the Russian leader. This is
paradoxical, since it would
seem that a real show of
strength would be demon
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Soviet Premier Khrushchev is doing what he has to
do in Asia and nothing President Kennedy might say to
him is likely to change his concept of the forces to which
he must react.
Against the background of a Laotian situation in
which the United States has
been made to look like a paper
tiger, Xennedy is reported to
be considering private talks
with Khrushchev
The United
States has start,
ed out at Gene
va by compro- ■
mising on the
makeup of the j
conference over :
Laos. She now !
faces a situa
tion in which ;
the Communist I
position of
strength leaves Roberts
small hope of protecting West
ern interests
Likewise, the Geneva discus
sions of an atom test ban ere
floundering.
The Western objective, then,
would seem to be to prevent
the situation from deteriorat
ing to the point where the only
pieces left for play on the in
ternational board are force and
the threat of force. Such a situ
ation would be dangerous with
the Berlin issue coining to a
head.
Under the circumstances.
Kennedy may feel like backing
away from his original concept
that any summitry on his part
would have to be based on an
improved American position of
strength and careful diplomatic
preparations at lower levels.
Neither has happened.
Summitry, however, must be
weighed against its chances of
success, just as military inter
vention in Laos was considered
against the chance of success.
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The forces at work on Khru
shchev do not contribute to
American chances of such suc
cess, no matter how much he
wishes to reassure the Soviet
people that his program for in
ternational Communist con
quest will not involve them in
war.
* When Josef Stalin started
the Korean War he unleashed
these forces, and nothing has'
appeared which seems likely
to restopper the jug from which
the jinn emerged.
In the Korean War fhe Chi
nese Reds found they could
stand up and fight the Euro
peans who had dominaled Asia
for so many generations, and
the Americans who stood as the
chief bar to traditional Chinese
not merely Communists
expansionism.
Now (hey are out (o extend
their sway beyond their south
ern perimeter. They were pre
pared to take over Laos, and
now they are preparing to move
into South Viet Nam and Thai
land, toward all of the South
east Asian peninsula and Su
matra.
Moscow had to anticipate
Peiping with arms in Laos, and
join the general Communist po
litical pressure on Asia, or else
see the Chinese Reds expanding
without Soviet aid or influence.
The Kremlinjs uneasy lead
ership of the Sino-Soviet ex
pansionist movement has’ be
come more important to Khru
shchev’ for the moment than
his campaign for coexistence.
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TO THE EDITOR: We have
been treated to another view of
the workings of the mental
processes of people running
The Daily Collegian, and in
turn, I assume, the Penn State
students.
Your note at the bottom of
Richard Stein’s letter on CD
drills is one of the most indica
tive of the paper’s policy that
one irregular reader has seen.
I’m glad to tee that in your
mature judgment "all sides of
this issue have been covered."
Fine now you ran gel back
to really important things like
SGA and your two sports
pages.
Go to it, friends. I’m fully
confident that should some
thing of profound significance
come up, such as a Ray Charles
concert, The Daily Collegian
will spare none of its resources
in giving the eager student
body complete and adequate
coverage. Go to it. friends.
—David T«or,
English Dept.
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