Word: goldberg
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...Ambassador Goldberg implores Hanoi to negotiate and expresses dismay that the enemy prefers to suffer destruction rather than come to the negotiating table [Sept. 29]. It seems reasonable that they should do so. Negotiation means to bargain, to compromise and to be flexible in the resolution of a contentious issue. It is a voluntary and peaceful proceeding. Therefore, negotiation cannot be entered into while the war is ongoing. Violence seeks surrender, not negotiation. To ask for negotiation while continuing the violence is a contradiction in terms; it is a counterfeit proposal...
Whether the slight opening in Johnson's speech will be explored by Hanoi remains to be seen. However, a similar and only slightly less conciliatory phrase in Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's speech to the U.N. General Assembly two weeks ago was brusquely dismissed by Hanoi as "insolent and ridiculous...
...Goldberg made it clear that Washington is willing to enter negotiations with Hanoi at any time without any conditions. Despite insistent reports from foreign officials that Hanoi is ready to talk as soon as the U.S. quits bombing the North, Goldberg noted that the Johnson Administration has repeatedly "sought such a message directly from Hanoi without success." What the U.S. wants, he said, is some assurance that a bombing pause would in fact lead to negotiations, and would not be used to hurt South Viet Nam's military position. In a rhetorical question whose wording proved practically incomprehensible even...
Soap Bubble. With considerably more clarity, Goldberg posed another question to "those governments which support Hanoi's cause"- principally the Soviet Union. "If the U.S. were to take the first step and order a prior cessation of the bombing," he asked, "what would they then do or refrain from doing, and how would they then use their influence and power?" The Russians, however, quickly made it clear that they had no intention of either reducing their aid to the North or trying to persuade Hanoi to come to terms...
Replying to Goldberg next day, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dismissed the U.S. suggestion as a "soap bubble," announced a step-up in aid to Hanoi, branded Washington a "barbarous" aggressor, and demanded nothing less than an American pullout from Viet Nam as the price for peace. Gromyko's intransigent tone made it obvious even to Secretary-General U Thant that the U.N. is not likely to be the arena in which the Viet Nam impasse will finally be broken...