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...need a summit meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev or Nixon and Mao Tse-tung nearly as badly as we need a summit meeting between Nixon and the citizens...
...committee members." One reason for the nonpartisanship is that Ervin has worked closely with Howard Baker, the ranking Republican and vice chairman. From the beginning, every vote of the committee has been unanimous, except when Connecticut's Lowell Weicker voted against postponing the hearings during the week Leonid Brezhnev was visiting Richard Nixon...
...America's motives, British officials nonetheless have their own fears. They are especially disappointed with Washington's failure to demand more concessions from the Russians. TIME London Correspondent William McWhirter reports that while British officials have been pleased with the frankness of U.S. briefings about the Nixon-Brezhnev talks, "they remain cynical, suspicious and disenchanted about the haste with which the U.S. traded away its own leverage over Soviet policy. It seems to the British that the Communists now have a short-term license to ruthlessly consolidate power within their own bloc-without fear of U.S. interference...
...McWhirter, "the British see a crude trade at work in the U.S.-Soviet détente-something along the lines that Moscow would overlook Watergate if Washington forgave Prague." Says Critic George Steiner: "There is an absolute conviction that to overcome his terrible weakness Mr. Nixon sold everything to Brezhnev. It would never have happened in a confident White House." Or, as one British official told the New York Times's Anthony Lewis: "The contempt the Nixon Administration has shown for its own society inevitably raises questions about its attitude in foreign relations...
...waning confidence, Europeans are increasingly resisting, suspicious and overly sensitive to the slightest nudging by Washington. TIME Correspondent David Tinnin reports that Kissinger's unkindest critics have already begun to claim that he is determined to keep Western Europe "in line" in much the same highhanded way that Brezhnev keeps his despotic hold on the East. Though this is clearly exaggerated, it nonetheless represents a foreboding element in Europe's new view of Washington. If allowed to harden, such attitudes could make "the year of Europe" a fiasco...