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...equipped to win support from small nations than either the U.S. or Russia, because "many states and world opinion instinctively shy away from giants." His greatest, and still unrealized, goal is to create a third force in the world, a power bloc rallying around France and capable of arbitrating East-West disputes by inclining its influence toward one side or the other...
...Method's Good." Nonetheless, disarmament negotiators remained hopeful that the East-West arms race might be slowed by the process that Khrushchev calls "mutual example." Thus the Johnson Administration's announcement of a $1.3 billion cutback in the current U.S. military budget was balanced with Moscow's recent claim to have slashed Soviet military expenditures by 4.4%, or $666 million...
...German response was positive, and gave no echo of the Adenauer era, when every American gesture toward relaxing cold war tensions was interpreted as a sellout of West Germany. Erhard understood the U.S. frustrations and seemed determined to make his country bear its full share as a partner in the Western Alliance. And he readily agreed with Johnson that West Germany itself ought to join in the search for new paths toward East-West agreements...
Only till Midnight. Ironically, Communism's grudging Christmas present to West Berlin seems to have originated in the toy factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...
Behind drawn draperies in a ponderously furnished, strangely silent office on Vienna's Wohllebengasse (Alley of Good Living) lies one of the key outposts of the Communist drive for East-West trade. It is Garant Insur ance, a Russian-owned-and-operated firm set up under Austrian law, and its business is supplying coverage for Western businessmen who trade with the Soviet bloc. In the five years of its existence, Garant has seen its premium income soar from less than $600,000 to $4,000,000 this year; it now does business with some of the best-known manufacturers...