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...drew applause from both sides of the Atlantic and from all across the political spectrum. It seemed to many the perfect opening gambit. But within weeks, the West Europeans in general and the ruling West German Social Democrats in particular began expressing anxiety over whether other moves would follow. Haig assured the allied representatives who paraded through his office that "the proposal is being forwarded in good faith. We want a Soviet reaction to it. We are prepared to listen." Haig was inviting a Soviet counterproposal and clearly implying that the U.S. would eventually compromise...
Perle, however, felt that showing any sign of flexibility would actually invite Soviet rejection and intransigence. "Haig's going around giving his own speech," he told Weinberger, "and it's different to the point of insubordination from the President...
...Geneva to open the negotiations at the end of November, he had only the sketchiest instructions. The bureaucracy back in Washington was still bickering over the details of the U.S. position. While waiting for those issues to be resolved, Nitze prepared a series of general opening statements, but Haig's aide Burt insisted that even these be cleared in ad vance by Washington. Nitze balked...
...Britain's dour Field Marshal Douglas Haig in World War I who confessed he never went to the front lest the squalid horror of trench warfare diminish his will to send armies to their death, an act he thought not only necessary but inviolable...
There is in the current protests against our nuclear arsenals at least the faint echo of the question raised more than half a century ago about Haig. Are the men and women in the White House, Pentagon and State Department grown so callous from their endless war games and box scores of missiles and megatonnage that the potential human tragedy has receded in their deliberations...