RUSSIANS RIPE FOR REAPPRAISAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300200007-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

'i,WA15HIN(1UN YEAR Approved For Release 2005/01/13: CIA-RDP88-01365R0003j7-i6 lc.
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JUN .1 1966 uu (;~
"WASHINGTON CLOSE-UP
It is proper for the popular, between the two peoples. In Viet Nam also revealed the i
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Russians Ripe -for Reappraisal
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Dickens and Harriet Beecher Europeans distrustful of both the revelation than we are.
Stowe didn't really begin the -the two countries have done ?-Point by point, our two sepa-
ends, respectively, of unsani- nothing but get more similar, rate courses move toward''
A h Industrial ca italism came to convergence. On an increas-',
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good guys again. than a little fed up with the Russians are just as imperial-
i about the Russians. They're the same time, both are more French. The Chinese say the
Hence it is that the lovely vast countries turned outward corners one o .
new movie, "The- Russians from their self-preoccupation. and for world peace.
Are Coming, the Russians 'Are at the same time. Both be- ; The ' French have long
Coming," does not initiate so came, somewhat to their maintained that -Americans
much as simroly reeounlize a surprise, world super-powers and Russians are equally
Lary pr
sons an uman P ing number of counts, the
slavery. They responded, at . Russia in the form of commu- ,
r the right time, to a growing nism. Socialism came to the , logic of world affairs moves.'
public opinion on the ques- United States in the form of ' American towarde a asoviet
r Mons. enlightened capitalism. Both t f r both natiothe
ns
Lions of common. humanity, prefer disorder. The new perspective thus
World War III is narrowly. ? Russia and America are implied in the main line of
averted and a new Soviet- - both watching their allies "The Russians Are Coming,
ing party from a Soviet The trouble for both is that'' accept the truth in these
11 submarine grounded off a being a super-power is not a independent evaluations and i
Cape Cod island. The 10-man job you can easily quit, even . act accordingly?
detail sets out to steal a if you didn't apply for it in the -The change in foreign aid
motor launch big enough to first place. Hence both our. alone, after decades of being
pull their sub free and in the countries will remain reluc- based on Soviet-American
process sets up a red alert tantly resigned to maintaining mutual distrust, will be worth
among the Islanders. Mutual some degree of order in some all the delicacies and difficul-
suspicion and xenophonia are' parts of the world, even at the ' ties of negotiating the new
pierced by isolated recogni- - risk of offense to those who., alliance.
American Friendship Epoch is grow restive and anxious to the Russians Are Coming" is
tt ; Inaugurated in old New be done with alliance and get ` minor compared to the really 1 -
It may be doubted that tention away from Europe and '. glimpses of the love mess o
anything In the cycle to come therefore away from Russia `.. New England shores just after I
i'funny and so expertly made cerns. NATO) and the Warsaw sites revealed in the movie?'~
that it will doubtless start a Pact both show signs of The first thing you meet after
good-Russian cycle even. becoming one-nation alliances. the credit titles Is a swift
bigger than the dumb-spy one _ Viet Nam has played a series of lovely views of the I'
noing out after saving, large part in this shift of - stern and rockbound Yankee'
th CI om serious oongres- national alliances and antip- ;coast. Throughout the film,
siona scrutiny. atllies. It took American at- there are constant momentary
S(FF,, will compare with the origi- k ,,It reminded America that Red 'Labor Day, the gulls, the)