European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments James Reston budget War needs help of the american people there is another More hopeful Way of consid ering the effects of president reagans this is that it May encourage a revival of the spirit of Tolera Tion and cooperation that is essential to ease the nation out of its present the first signs were not before the president was out of the there was some Conten Tion and More speculation Over who was to Pinch hit for him when he was on the and some unfortunate tension Between the White House and Congress Over the budget when the president reappeared within a week All smiles and the White House encouraged the belief that he would soon be Back to Good As and rain to get to As if hed had a tooth some of this Malarkey but a More realistic mood is there is More talk of Compromise and More talk of getting Down to serious budget negotiations on the not much but no doubt the president will be if he to smoke Don regans peace pipe and pass it around the Cabinet what he needs now is More leadership from Congress and the country and a few restful weeks at the ranch if Hes to get ready for the critical budget debates after labor Day and a Summit meeting with Mikhail the soviet at Geneva in there is Little doubt after this violent and contentious year that the country is in no mood for quarrels around the throne or More factional Battles Between the parties while the president is recovering his that could be bad policy and bad for if the people get it into their Heads that one party or the other is trying to take advantage of the presi dents convalescence for personal or partisan they arc Likely to express their resentment during the congressional elections next the facts of the budget and Trade deficits Are not in the budget deficit is hovering around billion a the United states is now borrowing billion a year and paying about million a Day in interest alone on the National this year the Trade deficit will run in the neighbourhood of Bil even Over the Long this threat to the nations financial Security is not going to be removed by philosophic appeals for a revival of toleration and moderation in though in the Short run at least the trend might be it will require new ways of thinking in con Gress and the White and much More recognition George will live  Larfet by the people that they Are facing the most alarming economic crisis since the David Broder of the Washington Post defined the problem the other Day in Stark but accurate terms when reagans problem was he his doctors did not hesitate or they did the sur he accepted the pain and every diagnosis of our economic cancer leads to the recommendation that the budget deficit must be Cut with whatever Short term pain and discomfiture by dealing with Domestic entitlements and if reagans doctors had shrunk from doing what his life and health they would have been denounced and if this administration and con Gress attempt to sneak off on vacation in August without acting on the budget they deserve no better treat the chances Are that they wont do a great Deal unless they hear it from the and that wont be for in the past the people have been asked by this administration to believe that the Way to face the danger was to accept a tax increase the defense Cut the social and borrow and spend and it was an Odd Way to fight a War on and it didst so the need for drastic corrective action is appear and both the president and Congress need help from the who May not know where to go but know they dont want to go this May require a return to the old fashioned barn raising american idea that when the Republic is in the people rally and do whatever is necessary to meet the Clear and present the trouble is that not enough people see the or think it is but More of them do every and if enough of them the chances Are that the president will Call for a special session of Congress around meanwhile a Little More Giveand take and toleration of the opposition  new York times machiavellian morals and the Enola Gays role this nation needs a spacious and one Corner of it is in some Corner 25 buildings House the smithsonian Reserve collection of air a soviet antiaircraft missile sits next to John Kennedy Campaign there is a Grumman Avenger of the sort the Young George Bush was shot Down but the sight that causes a visitor to catch his breath is the Dull Silver fuselage of a b29 bearing the stencilled name Enola the atomic which began in secret in a new Mexico desert at Dawn 40 years ago july announced itself 21 Days later when the Enola Gays bomb Bay the fuse unleashed neutrons that created in 22 pounds of uranium an explosion that occurred in on tenth of a Millionth of a the flight of the Enola Gay in a in 1932 in in Cavendish when James Chadwick discovered the the key to penetrating the atoms nucleus and unlocking Energy from thirteen years when the b29 fliers asked what they had volunteered they were told their 509th composite group was going to do something when they reached in Range of Tokyo Rose was on he radio read ing the Doggerel that americans on Tini an had written to ridicule the 509ths strange training Mission but take it from one who know the the 509th is winning the at the stunning moment in new when Robert Oppenheimer had thought of the shattered of a general simply the wars As the Enola Gay approached Japan the Copilot was writing a letter to his he wrote this sentence there will be a Short intermission while we bomb our he wrote this in a wild hand my the government committee that had kept the secret of the bomb project neither Nimitz nor Macar thur knew about the bomb until july said it should be considered not just As a weapon but in terms of a new relation ship to the forty years it would be extravagant to say the new technology of mass destruction has had such a transforming spiritually or Why should it have conventional munitions on the ground at Verdun killed Many More people than nuclear weapons the same was True at the 17 years before the Neutron was pug protagonist in Herman works War and says either War is or we it is too soon to say whether we but War certainly is it flourishes beneath the nuclear the first two bombs were War Enders and they prevented perhaps a million Ameri can casualties and probably spared Japan at least 10 times the deaths they each bomb killed fewer people than were devoured in each of two b29 raids on those raids were previews of what the autumn would have but for the Japan had million regular army Garrison Kamikaze children were being trained to strap themselves with explosives and Roll under there were potentially 30 million partisans with the will to die shown by Japan soldiers on Okinawa and iwo officials were too Uncertain of the new technology to risk a nonlethal demonstration for Japan that might have been a producing hardened japanese re there were just two until after the second bomb japans re Gime remained resolved to have a face saving and perhaps Compromise Kachiev ing Bloodbath the use of the bombs was seized upon by persons eager to portray America As a crude giant whose technological Power is disproportionate to its moral a nation with a cold machiavellian heart beating slowly beneath a thin lacquer of but Machiavelli bad reputation is the unjust Price he paid for being an unsentimental moralist in a world addicted to moral he said that a material and mental capacity for violence underlies a great nations the moral imperative is to economize violence by distinguishing be tween legitimate and illegitimate legitimate uses Are to reduce violence and preserve or promote Good in a few the Enola Gay is to be displayed with other aircraft at a new museum at Dulles Airport in Virgin it will be visited by hundreds of thou Sands of fathers and their children and grandchildren who would not be alive had the two bombs not made unnecessary an invasion of the museum will be a school teaching where Ameri cans can Ponder the Enola Gays role in a deed profoundly machiavellian and Wash Englon Post