# U.S. SEEKS 'NEW ATLANTIC CHARTER' TO RESOLVE STRAINS WITH EUROPE; URGES 'PRINCIPAL' ROLE FOR JAPAN

## KISSINGER SPEAKS

### Address Is "Unusually Frank About Recent Problems in West

Henry A. Kissinger said yesterday that the United States planned to build "a new Atlantic charter" with its European allies this year to overcome the economic, military and diplomatic strains that have developed in the alliance recently.

In a major policy address to the annual meeting of The Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Kissinger spoke with unusual frankness about the problems that have arisen as the West European nations—as well as Japan—have become stronger and more independent of the United States. "There have been complaints

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in America that Europe ignores its wider responsibilities in pursuing economic selfinterest too one-sidedly and that Europe is not carrying its fair share of the burden of the common defense," President Nixon's adviser on national security said.

### Europeans Criticized

"There have been complaints in Europe that America is out to divide Europe economically, or to desert Europe militarily, or to bypass Europe diplomatically," he said. "Europeans appeal to the United States to accept their independence and their occasionally severe criti-

cism of us in the name of Atlantic unity, while at the same time they ask for a veto on our independent policies—also in the name of Atlantic unity."

In a question period after his address, Mr. Kissinger said "it is a brutal fact" that the North Vietnamese have "cynically" violated the important clauses of the Vietnam cease-fire agreement.

He did not disclose what steps the United States might take, but indicated that the Administration would not permit transgressions to continue without an American response.

### Problem for Government

"The profound problem we face as a nation today is whether we should sign an agreement and when it is totally violated act as if the signature, which was then endorsed by an international conference, should simply be treated as irrelevant," he said. He said the Administration wanted nothing but "the observance of an agreement, freely negotiated."

Mr. Kissinger, who received a standing ovation before he began his speech, said that Mr. Nixon was "embarking on a personal and direct approach" to the leaders of Western Europe to deal with the political, military and economic questions in Atlantic relations to vitalize the alliance. He said that Japan should also share in this process as a "principal partner."

Noting that 1973 has been called "The Year of Europe," Mr. Kissinger said, "The United States proposes to its Atlantic partners that, by the time the President travels to Europe toward the end of the year, we will have worked out a new Atlantic charter setting the goals for the future."

Mr. Kissinger's speech stressed the view that America's allies

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