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...would be folly for the United States not to try to influence her allies," said Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and another member of the panel addressing the Tronto students. "Have you ever seen a relationship between countries not absolutely equal in strength that did not have a little arm-twisting...
...they are perfectly clair, and--since they are to be the core of my New Republic piece--you might have tried to mention them. It is a bit too easy to dismiss an opinion which one has not accurately described. What ain't fair ain't American. Stanley Hoffmann, Associate Professor of Govt...
...Hoffmann's objections to the attack on Tshombe--as outlined in his article--are based on skepticism about the U.N.'s ability to follow its own precedent without disaster, should another "Congo" develop. He does not see what, in fact, has been the heart of the U.N.'s problem since Hammarskjold's death. The U.N. must be willing to undertake a military operation where it is necessary and where it is likely to succeed, but be able to resist any faction (and anti-colonialism is only one of these) which tries to use such an action as a "precedent...
...Hoffmann's different interpretation of all this is indeed "perfectly clair" and well worth reading. What he left unclair in his article was his reason for thinking the Indian action similar to the U.N.'s in inspiration and probable effect. If I was unfair to him, It was in not pointing out that he very wisely drops the parallel after a few paragraphs, and concentrates on his objections to the U.N. Itself; I was only astonished that he had seen any similarity in the first place...
...Katanga action may be justified only superficially by anti-colonialism. "The use of force for the apprehension of foreign military personnel and advisers in Katanga," which Hoffmann condemns, was probably necessary to quash Tshombe. That, in turn, was a precondition to the institution of a strong Central Government, which is the dream of anyone anxious to avoid a polarization of Cold War forces in the Congo: anyone, in short, who supported what Hoffmann called Hammarskjold's conception of the UN. Hoffmann's confusion of these quite different military actions is surprising. Ce qui n'est pas clair...