Schlesinger’s Bluff
Any law enforcement officer will confirm that you should never point a gun at a criminal unless you are prepared to use it. Bluffing with weapons, loaded or…
Category: National Sovereignty
“Safeguard” in SALT?
Strategic arms limitation talks have resumed in Geneva to work out a SALT II Agreement to be signed at the next summit meeting with the Soviets this fall.…
The First Task of a Presidential Candidate — July 1975
Vatican Detente
In the recent Italian elections, the Communists established themselves as the leading political party in Italy’s eight largest cities: Rome, Naples, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Venice, and Bologna.…
Policy Toward Castro
The way I read the election returns of November 1972, George McGovern was decisively defeated. He carried only one out of 50 states. It is a puzzlement, therefore,…
Pitfalls of Personal Diplomacy
The psychological change that takes place in most men when they move into positions of great power is a phenomenon that has been commented on by philosophers through…
The Lessons of Vietnam — June 1975
Phu Quoc Refugees
When the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Agreement of 1954 cut Vietnam in half, one million Roman Catholics. in North Vietnam fled to…
Corrupt Dictators
Former Vice President Ky of Vietnam, a has-been politician who hasn’t been important for years even in his own country, dominated the American newscasts one day recently by…
Vietnam Investigation
Many Americans are so emotionally exhausted by the tragic news of the Vietnam debacle that it is easy to accept the request of President Ford not to “engage…