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...group of prominent American clergymen has asked for a cessation of bombing. Harvard Professor Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and now head of a State Department advisory group on Asian affairs, wrote that a gradual suspension of bombing "probably would be the wise course." U Thant has repeatedly urged the U.S. to call off the raids, and the Administration is aware that most free-world governments also favor a pause...
Peace Missions. Toure's action triggered a major diplomatic response. Down from A.O.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa flew a "peace mission" eager to resolve the crisis. In from the United Nations clattered a message from Secretary-General U Thant, condemning both sides and expressing "distress." Washington issued a "strong protest" to Guinea and dropped subtle hints that it might suspend its $70 million in foreign aid unless Ambassador Mcllvaine was released. Even Nigeria's military ruler, Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was moved to send the commander of his ten-ship navy to Accra for explanations...
...world was quick to react. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh called the Chinese test a "stimulus to the cause of world peace." United Nations Secretary General U Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense...
Would what? The little scene between Seydoux and Fedorenko had nothing to do with Viet Nam (they were agreeing on the wording of a draft communique about U Thant and the Secretary-General post). Couve's 30-minute speech proved to be nothing more than a restatement of Charles de Gaulle's demand in Pnompenh a month ago for American withdrawal. And as for a "new move," U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg a week earlier had offered to make one-cessation of American bombing in return for North Vietnamese withdrawal from the South...
This assumption, however, is extremely dangerous. Thant has insisted that the agreement will be possible if the big powers begin looking now, and he has said he will not be "blackmailed" by a succession crisis into staying on. As he noted on Sept. 16, "Where there is a will there is a way." Heeding his advice, the U.S. would do well to begin working actively to find an acceptable candidate while the situation is still fluid...