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...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...
These Soviet proposals for partial disarmament are clearly dangerous from the Western point-of-view. Their acceptance would have to be based on a complete trust in Soviet motives, and not even the most sanguine pacifists can be this ingenuous. The West either must work for total disarmament or must propose some partial steps of its own. These steps would need to go further than unilateral cessation of nuclear testing or than the rather far-fetched "open skies" concept...
...group under the supervision of the Committee on Friendly Relations will spend much of its time in the Middle West and will not visit New England...
...itinerant historian wants to move further west, he can hear Associate Professors Hoffman and Wahl explain French thought, institutions, and social structure since the Revolution (Sever 36); or he can sit while Oscar Handlin covers American Economic History. But on Monday, both lecture halls almost became condensed versions...