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...good, his health is fine, and everyone-even the Russians-wants him to stay on. Besides, no one can seem to agree on a successor. In the U.N.'s clubby delegates' lounge last week, more than a dozen names were being mentioned, from Finland's ex-Ambassador to the U.N. Ralph Enckell to Mexico's past President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. In the end, the doubters feel that U Thant, whose current term of office runs to Nov. 3, may only be angling for a draft, and as the price of his acceptance would demand more cooperation...
...scholar turned politician may be a contradiction in terms, but for Edwin A. Reischauer, ex-Ambassador to Japan, the combination proved a felicitous...
...great deal has been written about one journalist in particular who caught the brunt of Reischauer's "quite direct criticism." It was rumored that the reporter had been fired because of Reischauer's statement, but the ex-Ambassador catagorically denies it. "The reporter had already [before Reischauer's criticism] made arrangements to work elsewhere," Reischauer explains. But in general, Reischauer believes the Japanese press took his criticisms well and have made great progress in presenting a more balanced view of Vietnam over the last year...
...less predictable argument was advanced by retired Army General (and ex-Ambassador to France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
Most alarming in his diagnosis was the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge, ex-Ambassador to the U.N. and Viet Nam, who pronounced the alliance "in real danger," pointedly denounced "unrealistic nationalism"-meaning Charles de Gaulle's France, which had declined to send a representative to the session. But all speakers agreed that the issues go deeper than De Gaulle...