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...Eight statesmen, American and foreign, suggest how to reduce tensions
What, concretely, can the U.S. and the Soviet Union do to lower the level of tension between them in the months ahead? How, in the longer run, can they manage their competitive relationship better so as to reduce the risk of armed confrontation? TIME asked eight statesmen, both in and out of office, to offer some practical recommendations...
...country (its creations include synthetic rubber, artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by-commission, and unlike the "commission on the future" of years past, today's commission is not meaningless, temporary employment for eminent and idle statesmen. It is an essential political instrument for improvising a center. And it is the political story...
...progress. Observers criticizing achievements such as test ban treaties and miniscule reductions of warheads because of the distance still remaining towards the goal of a nuclear-free world overlook, in Eban's eyes, the positive aspect of any prize on this most difficult issue. He writes, "The task of statesmen is to understand what is real and concrete in the international environment and to seek the maximal chance of peace within that context...
...other hand, the major diplomatic failures of the last half-century occurred when statesmen deviated from a pragmatic approach, like in the Cold War for example. In perhaps the best part of the book, Eban shows how the East-West conflict grew out of U.S. misperceptions of Soviet intentions based on a misreading of history. Roosevelt, his aides and successors erred in thinking that the Soviets would share the U.S. enthusiasm for the infant U.N. and the idea of self-determination for nations. Any realistic examination of history would have led Americans to conclude that the Russians would resume their...