The Flint Journal
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D. 111,376 SUN, 110,756

Sakila

DEC 30 1968

Nixon Aide's Words
Deserve Careful Study

AN ARTICLE IN the January issue of Foreign Affairs is of considerable importance because of its message, but it has an added value because of the authorship.

The article, dealing with the problems of the Paris peace talks, is the work of Prof. Henry A. Kissinger of Harvard University. Prof. Kissinger's words carry an extra amount of authority since they are from the man who has been named by President-elect Richard M. Nixon to serve as his assistant for national security affairs.

THERE IS MUCH MEAT for thought in the article dealing with Vietnam negotiations, but two points stand out: The negotiations are certain to be difficult and delicate, and more than "getting out" of the war is at stake.

"We must realize," Prof. Kissinger writes, "that a civil war which has torn a society for 20 years and which has involved the great powers is unlikely to be settled in a single dramatic stroke."

Two other statements deserve consideration by a person seeking to understand the complexities of the Paris negotiations:

"The dilemma is that almost any statement about Vietnam is likely to be true; unfortunately, truth does not guarantee relevance."

"It would be difficult to imagine two societies less meant to understand each other than the Vietnamese and the American."

While even our leaders, such as Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, show, impatience at the nit-picking on arrangements by both the North and South Vietnamese, Prof. Kissinger points out that "there are no 'easy' issues, for each issue is symbolic and therefore in a way prejudges the final settlement."

THE CONTINUAL ridicule of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky does far more to damage our own position than it does to hasten the end of the war.

Prof. Kissinger points out that, while Saigon has been pictured as "perversely stubborn because of its haggling over the status of the National Liberation Front," the fact is that "to Saigon, the status of the NLF cannot be a procedural matter. That is because South Vietnam has been very nearly the central issue of the war. Washington must bear at least part of the responsibility for underestimating the depth and seriousness of this concern."

Prof. Kissinger points out that the

public rift between Saigon and Washington over how much recognition the NFL is to be given has damaged the allied position and also that such splits have ever been the objective of Hanoi.

"Clearly," he writes, "there is a point beyond which Saigon cannot be given a veto over negotiations. But, equally, it is not preposterous for Saigon to insist on a major voice in decisions affecting its own country."

PROF. KISSINGER also advances some comments on the ultimate outcome of the talks which should give pause to those whose impatience to end the war overrides their concern for the manner in which it is ended.

He emphasizes that, although it may be fashionable to ridicule America's prestige and credibility in the world, both of them are still of great importance in international affairs.

"In many parts of the world — the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, even Japan — stability depends on the confidence in American promises," he writes.

"Unilateral withdrawal, or a settlement which unintentionally amounts to the same thing, could therefore lead to the erosion of restraints and to an even more dangerous international situation. No American policy maker can simply dismiss these dangers."

Prof. Kissinger points out the difficulties standing in the way of reaching agreement in Paris, but says there are factors on both sides pushing the opponents toward some kind of settlement if they are given time and the right climate to work.

A DESIRE to achieve some quick "victory" by our government, whether it be the departing one or the incoming one, provides a great temptation, but one we cannot afford to indulge.

It is fortunate that one of President-elect Nixon's chief advisers is a man who concludes his article with a statement as pertinent as this one:

"However we got into Vietnam, whatever the judgement of our actions, ending the war honorably is essential for the peace of the world. Any other solution may unloose forces that would complicate prospects of international order. A new administration must be given the benefit of the doubt and a chance to move toward a peace which grants the people of Vietnam what they have so long struggled to achieve: An opportunity to work out their own destiny in their own way."

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- 3 DEC 1968

PROFESSOR GETS
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A GERMAN-BORN Harvard professor, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and a team of foreign experts will speed President-elect Richard Nixon's plans to remould America's foreign policy.

Dr. Kissinger, who came to the U.S. 30 years ago as a 15-year-old refugee, gets the key role in completely reorganising and restructuring the White House security planning machinery. with emphasis on mobility to meet sudden international emergencies.

He was named last night by the President-elect as his security affairs adviser on the White House staff, a post held by Mr. Walt Rostow under President Johnson.

Dr. Kissinger (45) will be in charge of the White House "situation room." the basement enclave which keeps a round-the-clock watch on world trouble spots.

One of his first tasks will be to revitalise and streamline the policy-making National Security Council, which Mr. Nixon says he intends to call into frequent and regular session.—(Reuter),

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A GERMAN-born Harvard professor, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and a team of foreign experts will speed President-elect Richard Nixon's plans to remould America's foreign policy.

Dr. Kissinger, who went to the US 30 years ago as a 15-year-old refugee, gets the key role in completely re-organising and re-structuring the White House security planning machinery with emphasis on mobility to meet sudden international emergencies.

He was named last night by the President-elect as his security affairs adviser on the White House staff, a post held by Mr. Walt Rosewown under President Johnson.

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Mr. Nixon claimed during his election campaign that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had allowed the Security Council to fall into disuse, summoning the Cabinet-level group only for rare emergency meetings.

Dr. Kissinger said he would work on long-range planning designed to "prevent crises from happening."

Mr. Nixon told a New York Press conference he was looking for advice "in terms of trying to pick the brains of the best people in the world."

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Kissinger Peace Article
Leaves Nixon Unperturbed

NEW YORK (AP)—President-elect Nixon let it be known Thursday that he doesn't endorse—but neither does he object to—the views on the Vietnam peace talks expressed by his chief national security adviser.

Nixon's response to the publication of the Vietnam views of Dr. Henry Kissinger came from the president-elect's press spokesman, Ronald L. Ziegler, in response to a swarm of questions from reporters.

The furor over the Kissinger article in the quarterly Foreign Affairs was the second of the week involving public statements by top Nixon appointees, despite Nixon's effort to keep a lid on substantive public discussion until after he takes office Jan. 20.

The president-elect was forced to reassure the world monetary community Wednesday that he does not anticipate any change in the price of gold.

This statement was issued in response to the shock wave generated by the Treasury secretary-designate, David M. Kennedy, a Chicago banker, when he refused to commit himself during a press conference on the subject. This

was interpreted as a signal of a coming change in Nixon fiscal policy. Kennedy conferred with Nixon Thursday.

As the Nixon camp tried to cool off the gold situation, the article by Kissinger appeared, a strong statement of the Harvard University scholar's convictions on Vietnam that was written before his appointment to the incoming administration.

Kissinger said in the article that the current Paris talks should be a prelude to informal and perhaps even secret talks between Hanoi and Washington on the one hand and between Saigon and the National Liberation Front on the other.

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Extract from
Financial Times, London

Nixon's choice
woos liberals

BY JOE ROGALY, U.S. EDITOR

MR. RICHARD NIXON to-day appointed the moderate, middle-of-the-road Dr. Paul W. McCracken as his chief economic adviser, and thus added to the impression, which has been rapidly building up this week, that the Nixon Administration will follow a broad centrist path.

I spoke with Dr. McCracken, who is 53, for an hour a week ago and found him to be a common-sense economist whose policies are unlikely to differ very much from those now being advocated by Mr. Arthur Okun, whose place as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers he will take next January.

Welcome

Coming as it does immediately after the appointment of Prof. Henry Kissinger of Harvard as the President's Adviser on National Security and Dr. Lee Alvin Dubridge as his Science Adviser, the nomination of Prof. McCracken is likely to be given a wide welcome in the American Press, and by the intellectual and business community generally.

This morning, for example, both the New York Times and the Washington Post—papers that could not in the past be accused of supporting Mr. Nixon—devoted their main leading articles to generous praise of the Kissinger and Dubridge appointments.

Professor McCracken is certainly in the same mould. He was director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1943 to 1948, and since then has been at the University of Michigan—latterly a professor at its school of business administration. During the Eisenhower years he was on the Council of Economic Advisers.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.

But, like the President he will advise, he will have to face up to the second most powerful man in America—after Mr. Nixon himself—when it comes to economic policies.

He is Mr. Wilbur Mills, Congressman from Arkansas, and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Mills met Mr. Nixon this morning and emerged full of phrases about his willingness to co-operate with the President-elect. He discarded a speech prepared for delivery to the Association of Manufacturers this afternoon (in which he comes out strongly against tax credits) and instead left the matter open, by saying he would consider credits for "training people for becoming self-sustaining."

But Mr. Mills is still against Mr. Nixon's scheme for automatic social security increases and his statements to-day are perhaps best read as the slight opening of a door once thought closed.

Mr. Mills is an obstacle to any Administration and may be to Mr. Nixon, in spite of the latter's clever use of Mr. Mills's private adviser, Mr. Norman Trure, as the President's own adviser on tax.

Two other decisions were announced by Mr. Nixon—the resignation of Mr. Earl Warren, Chief Justice, in June, and the appointment of Mr. Roy Ash, President of Litton Industires, to draft a programme of governmental efficiency.

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Editorial comment Page 16

Extract from
Guardian, Manchester & London

1 2 DEC 1968

Mr Nixon's new leadership
159

President Nixon will not be inaugurated until
January 20. His inaugural address then will tell
us more about his hopes and methods than the
men he has chosen to take part in his Administra-
tion. But what there is to be learned so far is
encouraging. Mr Nixon promised new leader-
ship and that is what he is supplying. Like any
ruler he has had to pay a few political debts, but
there is nothing alarming about any of the names
so far canvassed. They give the impression of a
serious Administration bringing an open mind.

Obviously there are many areas in which the
policies of the Nixon Administration will have far
more bearing on the lives of the overseas obser-
vers who had no part in electing it than do the
policies of their own Governments. We can learn
nothing about Mr Nixon's attack on East-West
relationships from the appointment of Mr
William Rogers as Secretary of State—except per-
haps that Mr Nixon intends to conduct his own
foreign policy. But his appointment of Dr Henry
Kissinger as his assistant on national security
affairs means that relations with Russia will be
under some fairly rigorous intellectual scrutiny.
And decisions abound to be taken as soon as
the Administration takes over. The most pressing
is when to proceed with the Soviet-American talks
on the limitation of nuclear missiles and particu-
larly the avoidance of a race in anti-missiles. The
world cannot afford—nor can the American poor
—the colossal waste involved in buying huge quan-
tities of sophisticated machinery which would in
the end leave the balance of power unchanged.
The Soviet Union, for its part, has not jumped

to any conclusions about the Nixon Administra-
tion's defence policy, and has fashioned its own
so that it can be adapted to what the United
States decides. Fortunately Dr Kissinger is not
one who believes that the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia necessarily marks a new mood of
aggression towards the West. Fortunately, too,
the man canvassed for Secretary of Defence, Mr
Melvin Laird, has a reputation for financial
shrewdness: he will not wish to throw tens of
thousands of millions into an anti-ballistic missile
system if that can be avoided.

Domestically Mr Nixon has made a thoroughly
useful appointment in taking Mr Daniel Moynihan
from the Harvard Urban Studies Centre to
coordinate the work of all his Cabinet officers
concerned with the problems of the cities. The
new Council on Urban Affairs will have a status
comparable with that of the National Security
Council and should bring some original thinking
into the tangled network of agencies which cater
for, or fail to cater for, the needs of the most
depressed section of American society.

It is still fashionable in Britain, in spite of
all the evidence, to think of Democrats as normal
and Republicans as an aberration. It is often
assumed here too that anyone with claims to be
an intellectual must be Left of Centre. In the
United States the rule is invalid. Britain, as the
fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth
states, might have given most of its electoral votes
to Humphrey. But now that Nixon is there let
us be as open-minded as he is trying to be, and
see what sort of a job he makes of it.