European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1977 the stars and stripes John Roche crisis managers Good at playing charades in you have devoted 30 years of your life to the study of jurisprudence and political it is very difficult to approach International problems in search of a fast when someone tells for that our refusal to recognize peking after 1949 had a fundamental Impact on red chinese attitudes towards the United he is unknowingly engaged in amazing hubris from the greek for the roots of Chi Nese reactions to the West whether Russia or America go Back thousands of years and Are not subject to overnight admittedly one can overestimate the Burden of history to oppose any change but his has hardly been an american sir Denis the distinguished told a Story of visiting Alsace in 1946 and asking some peasants what the ads were after some they told him the nazis were not As bad As the swedes who had last been in the area in the 17th Century an american handed a world problem reacts in the opposite mood he thinks history began the Day he got his As what started me on this Rainof Specula Tion was the news that vice president Fritz ambassador Andy Young and the human rights posse Are off settling things in Southern settling them once and for there is some per Sonal irony involved in Al Lowenstein doing duty As Youngs Deputy sheriff a decade ago Al was excoriating me for sup Posedly wanting to play world policeman meanwhile in a High soviet source has blasted the chinese and passed out a lot of free advice to the United the Gist of the message remember Munich the according to this Are planning aggression against everybody and must be stopped to translate this into policy the United states should not be lulled into a de Facto Alliance with peking or provide the Chi Nese with in our missionary which fell into disrepute during the Indochina is now Back in Good not Only should we preside Over the liberation of but also recall the lesson of Munich and Grid our loins against the yellow what worries me is that a new crop of National Security intellectuals looking to Woodrow Wilson rather than Metternich May decide it is our Mission to save the i have nothing per be against redeeming the but there Are two Prudential considerations that must be fed into any the first is abstract american intellectuals when they get into policy making roles think the like the uni verse of is infinitely in this recall multilateral nuclear born under overblown under and buried by stripped of cosmetic the Milf was designed to satisfy the German desire for nuclear capability while simultaneously convincing everybody including the that the germans were getting nothing maybe you can pull of f in a faculty but in practice the concept was a under Johnson we had a Dreamboat in Vietnam a school was set up to train 57man teams of Viet namese to go Forth and rally the hearts and minds of the the program was modelled on Leninist except the cadres were supposed to infuse democratic precepts into the when i asked two leading missionaries in this de Lansdale and Daniel Ells precisely what ideological virus these cadres were supposed to they fudged a then allowed As How it was new England town meeting when i suggested Tay Ninh was not con they indicated i had a soul deficient the second Prudential reservation is and Homine in my most of the political the masterly crisis  organize a trocar their specially is charades they can superbly Sandbox a hypothetical 100car to be i doubt if Andy Al Lowenstein and Brady Tyson could launch majority Rule in this May sound like a strange position to take for one who has himself been a Polit ical but my liberalism is out of Augustine by the late Reinhold Nie Buhr with hubris As original 1c King feat of William Safire begin terrorist who made Good a couple of years in the ele Vator of Jerusalem King David i mentioned to a Bellman that i was on my Way to meet Menahem Leader of the Hartline liked the Bellman a generation when the King David was British head he blew this place the Winner of tuesdays elections in Israel and who Likely will become the next is a terrorist who made As head of the begin was branded an outlaw by David Ben Gurion after Israel won its civil War was narrowly through a Long begin became a permanent opposition to the establishment labor to the Man with a reputation As a firebrand on the soft spoken and precise one received the impression that he believed that one Day his route to peace would be but that he never expected to be Premier at with heart trouble and run Ning against a Strong labor party Candi Date who promoted Menahem begin has emerged As the chosen Leader of the Middle easts Only Why thunderstruck labor party members the new outs who have never been out before grumble that the begin Victory was merely the result of a split in labor party plus a Public desire for change after a series of dazed who had hoped to present the Carter plan for Mideast peace while disclaiming any intent to impose the plan on the Are hurrying to put out the line that the expression of popular will in Israel was rooted in economic Trou and did not reflect any Haw like ten Dency among the both explanations Are to an but leave out the gut Issue israelis worry More about personal and nation than about scandal or As the shows signs of weakening in the and As the new american president Speaks in favor of a Homeland for hostile arabs on the Jordan Rivers West the israeli voter turns toward the Candi Date least Likely to Trade Security for unstable for Menahem begin does not even use the phrase West he prefers the ancient Judea because he sees that Cru Cial area As an integral part of in building a coalition to he May have to give up the idea of annexing the West but the Center of israels bargaining position has undoubtedly shifted toward trading away less As might be syrian radio says the begin Victory will push the Middle East close to a new and other dictatorships and monarchies Call the newly elected Leader a notorious terrorist our guerrillas arc your but the free election of a hardliner in Israel cannot be permitted to become an excuse for Arab or for a new round of attacks by stale department arabists on our Mideast ally As i Transi if the Carter administration is looking for opportunities for Success rather than alibis for Here arc some reasons Why the election upset could Advance the prospects of a secure peace begin is Likely to try for a coalition that be Gurion called me Tor to from Wall to Wall a wide gathering of the Center and he is using Lincoln Ian  suggesting that his More moderate Campaign tone will be his an outs Okenly hard line on territorial defense happens to be the Best a for the israelis will never let themselves be enticed into hand ing Over the Golan from which they have been attacked so and it is helpful to understand that position going into a guarantees of in defensible israeli Borders would be impractical and should not be taken As serious in the the israelis have to depend on themselves to Bear the first Brunt of the Man in office is never the Man in that not that government in a Menahem begins As expressed in that interview years was a secure not he will have to be More flexible than he has but be will not panic at the first withholding of Ameri can he gave his visitor a copy of his the revolt Story of the and it included this line if you have the Anvil love of and the Hammer the Ideal of Freedom you will indubitably find the Iron from which to fashion the weapons for the Strug York