Word: sovietizers
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Americans must not assume too lightly that Premier Khrushchev's disarmament proposal is "only propaganda." A tendency exists here, particularly in high governmental circles, to dismiss anything that emerges from Russian mouths as tainted and patently unacceptable. No one can object to care or even suspicion in considering Soviet proposals, especially with so much at stake, but in this case there is a strong chance that Khrushchev means business. If so, he must be taken seriously...
...Soviet Premier is sincere in proposing total disarmament with firm guarantees and complete inspection at every stage, the West is virtually morally compelled to accept. But acceptance and realization of total disarmament, as many fear and Khrushchev perhaps hopes, will severely strain an American economy in which more than half the national budget goes into defense...
Total disarmament, to be sure, is not the only possible forward step. Some sort of half-way measure is more likely to emerge from negotiation. But along this line Khrushchev's particular proposals require very careful scrutiny, for they seem designed to weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was told at Camp David that if the U.S.S.R. is reasonable about paying off its multimillion-dollar lend-lease debt it may pave the way for easing U.S. trade restrictions against the Soviet Union...
Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon gave this today as the gist of last weekend's talks between President Eisenhower and Khrushchev on trade, a priority item for the Soviet Premier...