Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a bitter critique of the radical night, Hoffmann addressed his remarks correctly at SANE and Tocsin. "Precisely because what you are advocating is unpopular the burden of proof is on you. If you simply repeat rituals you are going be dismissed out of hand as irresponsible...
...Hoffmann pointed to three errors in pronouncements of disarmament groups: an overestimation of the likelihood of war, a mistaken belief in the defensive character and limited objectives of Soviet policy, and an inordinate press on survival as a goal of American region policy...
Graubard underlined Hoffmann's comments, and remarked that Tocsin reminded him of "an old record." He lamented that peace groups had not framed specific and practicable answers to the radical right...
...reply, Hoffmann declared that "When one stresses a common interest in survival as a basis for negotiations and agreements," one must beware of assuming that "just because we would take unilateral measures in the direction of peace, the Soviet Union would take parallel unilateral measures. It might just as well do the opposite, and take advantage of the gap thus opened...
...headed enough to start a war if he is not disarmed, how can you believe he has suddenly become rational enough to willingly give up his arms?" An informal agreement, less restrictive of sovereignty and less threatening to security than an inspected arms ban, might have more effect, Hoffmann concluded...