European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments James Reston americas quiet voices lost but not forgotten any newspaper reporter Worth a dime pays attention to the clock and the and keeps a future Book about the passage of mine says that John Jay Mccloy of new York was 90 this and that William Fulbright of Arkan Sas turned 80 but thai cant possibly be Mccloy makes retirement look he was in Washington and made a Little talk in the caucus room of the Senate Russell building that was so quiet and modest that nobody could hear but privately he goes like As if he were still at the War or presiding As High commissioner in or running the world Fulbright is another quiet but Speaks when loud and he is a former president of the University of he was for Many years chairman of the Senate foreign relations and is still presiding Over his adoring Fulbright scholars and working on his slice at the burning tree Golf outside assuming that the clock and the Calendar Are reason ably something should be said for these old who in their Day played an important part in the passage of America from isolation to the defense of Freedom in the last it is popular in the Days of muscular diplomacy to mock these old establishment types out of washing ton and the Council on foreign relations in new but when the history of these troubled times comes to be the Mcclous and he Fulbright Are not Likely to be Mccloy came out of Berlin with the conviction that nothing would restrain the expansion of the soviet Union but military but at the same he was almost the Only voice to oppose dropping the atomic bomb on the japanese until we had sent a sol emn warning to Tokyo that we had such a weapon and would use it unless they the Swett have Tom Wicker for us murmur of a army major in and on to Mccloy and still some other anxieties about the conduct of our National Lor i have had Long letters from him protesting that the executive and legislative branches of the government arc being run by unelected officials who Are writing the speeches and stating the questions for decision by the president and Fulbright has been insisting on the same As a former University president and student of foreign he wonders Why so much Money is going into the and Why the budgets Cor the Farmers and the old folks arc being Cut and Mccloy and right or Are not alone in their there Are others who helped along the Way and now in advancing years worry in the night about our present Domestic my financial this City is full of ghosts who one Day exercised great Power but Are now out of office in the last years of their lives and cant go Home and dont even know where Home there for Clark who had the bad Luck to be born on Christmas Day having to share his Christmas with his birthday and now has the Consolation As an old Man of having helped his buddy Lyndon Johnson try to get out of there is also George former ambassador to author of the nations policy of containment of soviet now living in Princeton in his 81st year and writing like de Tocqueville about the inevitable destiny and conflict Between the two great Continental Powers of America and the soviet this is not to forget ave Roll i also a former ambassador to the soviet Union and to Britain and a former Secretary of among Many other now in his 94lh he is Drifting into the but with the help of his wife with her Churchill doing the Best he can with his Money for the study of relations at Columbia these Are the lost voices of the but echoes of them Are still heard from both political however the tragedy of it on the Side is that family life cant always Bear the pressure of time and Mccloy and for arc no longer concerned primarily about the conduct of the nations foreign poli they Are concerned above All else about the frail health of their they have said All they can about Public and now in old age think mainly about the Security of their c 1985 new York times Syndicate watch ouf fhe russians Are coming again president reagans highly charged remarks about Nicaragua Are a bit because the game Here is far from in the opinion of Ramiro the anti sandinista head of the nicaraguan Union of agricultural pro and he added there is sandinista there is reagans and then there is Reali they Are three very different guardians Point was underlined by the fact that he was speaking Al a gathering of More than nicaraguan business men and they met in Man denounced the government for its marxist Leninist and accused the sandinista of having betrayed the principles of the 1979 while doing they were neither harassed by the police nor apparently inhibited in their harsh that Doest sound much like the communist tyranny Reagan so frequently blasts the sandinista for having nor Doe it sustain George shut mfr charge that Nicaragua is already behind the Iron no such meeting of Algry capitalists opposing the government is to be held i in Czechoslovakia or Bui Reagan paid no in his most recent radio he tuned his rhetoric a few decibels de Claring that the United states had an obligation to resist what he called the soviet unions Effort to turn Central America into a beachhead for subvert and How is that obligation to be met by renewed support for the the Cia connected guerrillas who have been waging War on the Sandi nistas from bases in Reagan Calls them Freedom even though Many of their including their Mil itary Enrique Bermu were officials of the installed and Somoza regime that was ended by the 1979 our support for the Freedom fighters is morally right and intimately linked to Bur own Reagan told his radio he wanted it clearly under he that if we fail to meet this obligation we would have sent an unmistakable signal that the greatest Power in the world is unwilling and inca Pable of stopping communist aggression in our own behind this inflammatory of is the presidents plan to ask probably this to approve million in additional military Aid to the the russians Are coming this time to Central no doubt Reagan has been emboldened by his Success in wringing 21 More my missiles from a reluctant con he had to pull out All stops to win that one calling Home Max Kam his chief arms from to dramatize the winning argument that to reject the my would be to undercut Kampelman and the other Nego even the missile Money was authorized by Only six votes in the and Many who voted for it Are swearing they wont do so Reagan expended much of his political for a Victory that could yet prove one consequence might be reduced support for the in creased military spending Reagan from those who resented but succumbed to his Peculiar argument that a vote against the my was a vote against arms the Only argument of comparable political Power that Reagan can make in support of financing the contras is his claim that a soviet beachhead will grow out of the communist tyranny he sees in theres no real Evi Dence from ritual anticommunist re spotting for that proposition but Reagan showed in the my debate that he May be Able to do without evidence As Long As he has a Strong emotional line to the soviet beachhead argument nevertheless raises some awkward questions for for Doest he simply declare that the United states will not tolerate a soviet military base of any kind in Nicaragua that policy could be verified and it would remove whatever need there May be for the Over throw of the and unlike the Contra War it would be supported throughout latin and if this persuasive president is Able to convince the Public and Congress that a soviet beachhead really is threatened in what will be the consequences As is a renewed Contra War proves to be As ineffective As the contras efforts so far have been might Reagan not then find himself under powerful political pressures to use forces to beat that obligation he so emotionally de1 scribes and to counter what he himself pictures As a threat to vital american interests c 1985 new York times Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and Carlops on this Page lure sent those of the authors and Are in no Wey to be considered As representing those of the stars and stripes or the United states