The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-04-30
The Allen-Scott Report
Cautious Bias Toward Russia in Sino-Sovet Quarrel
Directed in Foreign Policy Paper for U. S. Diplomats

WASHINGTON. April 20
President Kennedy is taking a
hand in the stormy Sine Soviet
snarlng on the Klemlin's side.
U. S. Diplomats are being di-
rected by the White House to
privately and publicly favor Rus
STA unless doing that should raise
the possibility Of embarrassing
Premier Khrushchev.
In this event. they are eau
toned mot to so openly favor
Khrushchev'S point of view as
to make it difficult for him to
justify it within the Communist
camp"
These extraordinary instluc-
tons highlght grand design"
policy paper the President has
directed McGeorge Bundy. his
special foreign policy adviser,
to distribute to q. S. arnbassa-
doris in strateg i c capitals
throughout the world. This select
list includes Ambassador Foy
Kohler in Moscow.
Titled Relations with Com
munist Regimes. this top-level
policy paper. in a section label
ed JUS. Exploitation Of the
Sino-Soviet Split" gives these
diplomats the following signifi-
cant directions:
Although there is little the
q. S. can do to promote that
split. we should at least avoid
measures that might have the
effect of healing it. We should,
thus, not so openly favor Khrush-
chevs point of view as to make
it difficult for him to justify it
within the Communist camp. We
should in the context Of the
Sino-Soviet dispute as well as for
larger reasons be prepared
to encourage KhruShchev's pre-
ference for negotiations and
peaceful settlement
And We should make clear,
by deeds as well as words, that
any contrary Chinese Commun-
mist view is likely to prove I'M
rewarding: that the character of
the Sno-SOviet debate over
Wars of National Liberation
makes it critically important
that South Vietnam maintain its
independence and that the pres
ent North Vietnam offensive be
frustrated"
MAKING A JUDGMENT-The
warns the ambassadors to avoid
becoming so preoccupied with
the Sino-Soviet split as to lose
sight of the main U. S. objec-
tlveS.
I'VE should not become 50 fas-
cinated with the Sino-Soviet
split" states the document, "as
to lose sight of the larger pros
pect that both states, whether
closely knit or not, will continue
to wax in strength, and that both
will be basically hostile to us
though perhaps in different de-
grees and in different ways"
The paper enunciates two
courses Of action. as follows:
The only effective means of
offestting this prospect will be a
continuing built-up of free world
strength and cohesion through
our own and allied military pol
icieS, combined with efforts to
isolate and consolidate such par
ticular areas Of overlapping in
terest with Communist states
and the free community as may
emerge"
The policy document also fore
sees the strong likelihood that
despite the Sino-Soviet dispute,
the Chinese Reds will continue
to grow in power and I'm the
relatively near future acquire a
nuclear capabiity."
Although the USSR might be
driven by the split to adopt a
somewhat intransigaat foreign
policy" the paper continues, lit
is likely that it will at least ex-
pertinent with a more accom-
modating policy toward the
West, thereby opening up new
opportunities for Western nutia-
tveS."
The paper concludes hopeful
~. "A Sino-Soviet spit-despite
the possibilities of competition
in aggresSiveness as between
Moscow and Peipng - is def
in the U. S. interest and
In the interest Of the free com
U. S. diplomats also are told
that administration policy to-
ward the Nationalist and Com