RETREAT TO DEFEAT?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790056-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 9, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790056-1
MAY 9 19 61
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Circ.: rrt. 208,963
S. 272,597
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Date
MAY 9 19bi
-4etreat To DeiNat?
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WALTER LIPPMANN, Arkter.4,noie ? '7=-1-7
self-appointed supersecretary of 'Sa$t*VAILY THOUGHT:
ave set out upon the. talk . " /Nan are- merely strangp,dark
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spuuson" foc:_, es-in the electrical display of
S. fr the Fdther.?Eugene O'Neill.
peripheral ponitionS,Aiind
,
denying that the administration in-
from several personal son
tends to pursue Mr. Lippritann's
ghSoviet rregn-tir5.4,..,_,...,"w4.?-' - policy, Secretary Rusk made the point
v.Mr? that "peripheral points tend to be-
that our basic oottee.,ot_gr, de;
come central points."
nails Iiillskbe el:fangell His logic, of course, is elear. Each
President Kenn
-1**,4' eat from Communist imperialism
a
fa change it,, being hob.
MP' presents a new "peripheral position."
4trong bureau.f!ratit:_inLett? _
we retreat from it, too, the Coin-
state Department, tiv
In
10 unists advance again?and when we
Intagonreach Ole "central points" that
On. the heels of' Mrs, Lipmvan!ta .
Mr . Lippmann speaks of, they, too,
p3triOutoements, Moscow rad'
? sated that it would be necessary
titi3 United States to depart from
dliankrupt policy" of negotiating fr
'z II:mions of strength,"
" - .Pperipheral."
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And indeArtsible.
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, A. There are several obvious flaws in
the Lippmann. thesis of withdrawal.
, Here again we find a. stramse THE MOST OBVIOUS flaw is that
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akiel in the writings of3lf1.'
wiien he said :. in his,- comnie.nt
lieihed in this page May 5: "This
we keep 'abandoning exposed posi-
ns,--in the hope that they will tend
to ',become neutral "buffer" states?
:fry has 'rye/ yet had a leader tviii the Communists will be relieved of the
*as dared to explain candidly the 00.....,?; iktSets9.ity of winning them by con-
sequences of the change in the balaWtest "or subversion: These exposed
of world power since the Soviet thiimi states will merely drop like ripe plums
broke the American nuclear 11100poiti.4.1itto the Communists' laps. As they
in 1949." ',4119P, others will be under increased
- Mr. Lippmann has put into 'wards --ptessure to drop also.
his oft-expressed desire for "bold new A more basic fallacy in the Lipp-
ideas." He now insists that We undsit; mann argument, although it may be
take to defend only "key areas," and
relinquish the notion of "American
satellite states."
A reporter at Secretary of State
Dean Rusk's final 'press conference
before his departure for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization at Oslo
brought up this matter. He did it'
without identifying Mr. Lippmann by
name, Mat with specific deference to
his comment.
? Secretary Rusk acknowledged fa-,
narity with the quotation. But. in
less cgdpparent, is that weakness?not
strength?begets trouble with the
Reds; On several occasions Where we
have stood our ground with the Rus-
sians,- hostilities have not developed.
.It is when we have excluded territory
from our defense ii.egimetfr7,--as Dean
Acheson unthinkingly ,:(14 islike case
of Sorqb-ICor:e4?that an ovstOtattacki
by gananumsst.barces has AI*.
advice should
foilosaa, Amil.ar consequences may
..,,eipectS0, ?
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790056-1