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JFK Discusses Reservists, Berlin
WASHINGTON (tP)—President Kennedy
offered hope yesterday to Reservists he said
were summoned to active duty "to prevent
a war" that they may be out of uniform in
less than the required 12 months.
"We call them in to prevent a war, not to
fight a war," Kennedy said. "We are going to
get them out as quickly as we can."
Kennedy bristled a bit about
the whole subject. He put in more
time on it than on any other at
a 31-minute news conference.
This was against a background
of published reports about Re
servists having poor equipment,
little . to do or being square pegs
in round holes.
Kennedy answered a questioner
who asked about complaints of
Reservists that most of them are
making heavy sacrifices; that they
gave up jobs and their lives arc
disturbed. The President said
they are performing a vital serv
ice.
"These men who may be serv
ing in a very cold and windy
cathp in Ft. Lewis, Wash.." the
President contended, "are ren
dering the same kind of service
to our country as an airplane
standing at 15-minute alert at a
SAC—Strategic Air Command—
base in Omaha is rendering.
"Their function today is to in
dicate that the United States is
serious about its commitments;
that it means to meet its commit
ments.
The U.S. wants to negotiate a
peaceful settlement if it can, but
we do not propose to surrender."
Reservists were called up, he
said, because the administra
tion felt U.S. conventional forc
es lacked sufficient strength at
a time of increased tension in
Viet Nam and a clash of in
terests over Germany and Ber
lin.
The important thing, he said.
"is to maintain the peace, and
they are helping to do it." how
ever unsatisfactory it may be to
be sitting in a camp.
Bridges' Funeral Held
CONCORD, N.H. (A')—Leaders
of nation and state paid final
tribute to New Hampshire Re
publican Sen. Styles Bridges yes
terday and his body was laid to
rest in a grave on a windswept
cemetary hill.
Colleagues in Congress spoke at
a solemn public funeral in the
stately, circular Hall of Flags of
the New Hampshire State Capi
tol.
Bridges, who suffered a heart
attack earlier this year, died in
his sleep last Sunday, at age 63.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
. . holds press conference
hvestia interview
Approved by West
By The Associated Press
President Kennedy's interview
'with Izvestia's editor was looked
upon by much of the Western
world as the opening of a new
frontier behind the Iron Curtain
that could bring better under
standing of Western views.
Reaction was mixed among'
Russians interviewed in Moscow.
I Most found it hard to believe
'the statement of the President to
Atexei Adzhubei, editor of the
Soviet government paper, that
West Germany has a puny nine
army divisions and is no threat
to the Soviet Union.
An Izvestia dispatch from New
York, however, called the inter
view a "step forward in Soviet-
American understanding."
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WASHINGTON (?P)—President Kennedy
said yesterday establishment of international
control over the highway connecting West
Germany with West Berlin will be one of the
chief points in future negotiations with the
Soviet Union. '
Kennedy briefly raised the possibility of
internationalizing the 110-mile-long Helm
stedt Autobahn in an interview
with Alexei Adzhubei, editor of
the Soviet government newspaper
Izvestia. It was published Tues
day in Moscow.
The West, the chief executive
told the Soviet newsman, wants
to maintain a limited number of
troops in the city and have "an
international administration on
the autobahn so that goods and
people can move freely in and)
out."
Kennedy's suggestion, State
Department specialists said, rep
resents the only idea proposed I
from the Western side thus far
on how free use of the auto
bahn can be obtained.
Kennedy, explaining it at his
news conference yesterday said:'
"What I am anxious to do is;
to work out some system which;
will permit freedom of access for
the people of West Berlin with- 1
out harassments which endanger
their freedom and which increase
the tension between the coun
tries."
This means, officials said,
that any formula developed by
the Western powers for' the use
of the highway will cover both
I occupying forces in the city,
and West Berliners.
Some kind of an international
authority to control the auto
bahn's traffic and to guarantee
Western access to it is under con
sideration, Kennedy told re
porters.
The control agency could be the
(United Nations, the four occupy-1
ing powers, or "some other body,"
he added.
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U.S. Policy
'Successful'
NEW. YORK (11 3 ) Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson
said last night bipartisan for
eign policy has won "impres
sive successes" toward the
building of a livable world
community.
In a reply to critics who de
mand total victory in the cold
war, the vice president said Amer
icans could be proud of the gains
they have made over communism
in the struggle for the world.
"Our strategy and our suc
cesses are not the possession of
any one party or administra
tion," he said in a speech pre
pared for a Medico award dinner
honoring U.N. Ambassador Ad
lai E. Stevenson.
"They belong to all the Ameri
can people," he continued. "For
they represent the labor and sac
rifices made by all the Ameri
can people over 16 troubled years
since World War II."
Medico is a nonprofit organiza-'
tion founded by Dr. Peter D.
Comanduras and the late Dr. Tom
Dooley which sends American
volunteer doctors and nurses'
throughout the free world.
Stevenson was honored with
Medico's "world humanitarian
award," which will he pre
sented annually, not necessarily
in the medical field.
In obvious reference to Sen.
Ba rr y Goldwater, R-Ariz., a
spokesman for conservatives who
has called on President Kennedy
to make victory in the cold war the
objective of American policy, John
son told the Council on World Af
fairs in Philadelphia he was not
aware "that this—or any preced
ing administration has been
committed to defeat."
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3D. 1961
West Germans Declare
New Policy on Berlin
BONN, Germany (AP) Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer's new
government set forth a new pol
icy yesterday, declaring that im
mediate negotiations with the So
viet Union should concentrate on
abolishing the Berlin crisis.
Heretofore, the West German
government has insisted that the
Berlin question should be dis
cussed only in connection with
the entire German problem—in
cluding the reunification of Ger
many and European security.
The declaration was read by
Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard.
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