European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 12 the stars and stripes trailblazer january James Reston statements of Carter no Accident president Carter is giving the israelis and the egyptian the m50treat he confuses rime minister begin on wednesdays and fridays and confuses president Sadat on thursdays and the following he reassures begin to the dismay of and vice Bui he has a Pur its an interesting technique the Best to guessing game since Twenty questions but its no it May be effective or right or but it i be a mistake to assume that Hes using provocative words Accident out of in he is being precisely Carter has been tear and simple in saying that he is not advocating a pales Tinian this troubled Sadat and encouraged when he talks about palestinian rather than inter and a palestinian and then As he did Ai Aswan in that the palestinians should be enabled to participate in the determination of their own this troubles begin and reas sures this is a very delicate exercise full of historical Homeland is what the jews fought for that is to their own Independent Home and Sovereign state of when Carter talks about legitimate right o the pales Tinian people to participate in the determination of their own he summons up other dreams and ghosts out of the Carter knows very Well that hit use of the word determination recalls Wood Row Wilsons evangelical Campaign for the William Buckley Kennan stand on foreign affairs it is a Rule at the Council on foreign relations that one May not write about what Eny member says at one of its meet my Rule is to obey rules of organizations of which 1 am a but the esteemed Michael professor of humanities and newspaper has now written about a speech by George Kennan delivered id the Washington Branch of the car the speech becomes Public ii is a remarkable not at All easy to but definitely Worth Henry Kissinger remarked private 10 years that the Premier Zambutu its in Public life in America were Adlai Sevenson and George mind his was said about Kennan Only 10 years after he wrote his famous signed which articulated the doctrine of that article became the spinal column of Western u is now his though that May be too formal a word for that at this moment in history the world is bedevilled not so much by the soviet Union As by the of some of its notably and he Speaks not of the Curtis if May of policy them Back to the Stone although he did not mention any he is really speaking about such men As Paul Niue and George Ball and Henry Jackson what one might think of As the Dean ache in school of foreign these and others like Rea tons Are responsible for a sclerotic mind set in the formation of foreign if it were not that we continue to think of the soviet Union As stains coun we would move with greater spontaneity in our relations with we would recognize that the present leaders of Russia Are truly conservative that the old revolutionary Elan is and that our programmed reflexes Are quite simply inappropriate to the task of bold experimentation with the View to taking the opportunities at opportunities to do what professor Kennan is not specific but one gathers for instance in the matter of the Salt Kennan considers that All this fussing about whether we can move this weapon from Here to about whether we have engaged in symmetrical responses to the development of this weapons system or that one All such in Kennan is a kind of Ristic militarism that bind Down the intellectual Fracul preventing us from the fruitful explorations we should be now Doni misunderstand Kennan the amb Guist tells us he has a very High regard for the conventional he knows they Are that they Are skillful in the Pursuit of their professional concerns but i think it would be fair to summarize he is saying they Are faintly Boring really not very useful these now George Kennan is influential among other he is a very Brilliant of unimpeachable he has nothing of the Evans and Novak have recently after clo sely examining the first military budget a president that Carter u much More a George Mccovery in matters of National defense than he is a Henry yet in was Only five ago that George Mcgoveran defense policies were rejected with some what makes them defensible today what is in that is conservative about the leadership at the soviet Union that could not asap have been said to be conservative about the leadership of Joseph Stalin Stalin always withdrew under but even statin did not in behalf of a postwar military a anything like the sacrifice currently being made by soviet citizens Al though they live with a per capita income on half the sue of our spend twice per capita what we do on their George Kennan seems to feel that the moment has come for what win he say if in the next period the conserva Tives in the Kremlin get in the Way of a settlement in the practice a Little Irre Denlis in and Crank up the War machine in North Korea that the United states failed in its great opportune t self determination of from the time of the Bat Bur declaration to of president this was the moral principle on which the jewish stale was it is precisely the principle Sadat and the other Arab Leaden tuft been using in support of the creation of a Pajes trnian and also the principle begin rejects for the we Are not beating around the begin has been quoted As to self determination Means a palestinian and were not going to agree to any such mortal danger to the israelis Are not going to agree to it because  Means exactly what it says the right to determine the self of a Sovereign state Loas the jews the notion that their popu lation could be limited by the absorptive capacity of the and that Israel could therefore not be Defeated in War but Over whelmed by the immigration and Fertility of the Arab so what to do As i understand feels that there is a better Chance with Sadat and to change the course of history in the Middle East than at any time since the creation of the Israel and that there is even an Opportunity these two but not for to away from the Dominion of fear that dominated relations Between Jerusalem and Cairo for Over a there he is above everything to keep the negotiations to lift the conflict out of the worst military assumptions of the Pait and find some philosophic bub for Compromise in the this involves and also Sadat and in All sorts of ambiguities and con All the players on this such Are now going against Many have said in the in the some important tilings Are the people of Tara stand Egypt i Are demonstrating their longing for in pfc they Are not lost in the tangle Over the i meaning of but Are enc Al begin and much More than to cans or the la keep going and it nth some belter Roa tothe there is a of in Ulm Quick meetings at airports and Aswan or Juls sudden to provocative in television interviews to be too motto no to strike heroic to draw never never lines Between Cairo and and yet to pretend thai they agree Carter on almost everything he Sadat said Al Aswan thai he was Happy that his and Carters and when he rarely with lends to come a with this same conviction of i de standing and even in this Middle East Smi Over land and both cannot Bel of Garter has his greatly ism at of making people he personally believe in his sincerity and t integrity of his nations this could be a critical Point at May Well be one of toe epic in history of the Middle history Lyrl always determined by by Ance of Power and t not it is influenced by recognize that everything to t depend in to about what we do above the work of self in Erevan be no International somebody finds a Way of relieving f sur and begins the Laik of creating this a what going on now in talks on the Middle there i u but there is a vague i Anong these after All their r that they Are not Only i avoid War in the Middle i trying to hold together a civilized Worley