EDITORS TOLD U.S. MUST HELP TO REUNIFY EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 18, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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ler or timelier task than to seek
the end of European partition,"
Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of
Columbia University told. the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors yesterday. The job re-
quires U.S. leadership, he said.
The expert on Russian affairs
addressed the editors at the final
business session of their conven-
tion at the Washington Hilton
Hotel.
Noting that next Sunday
marks the 20th anniversary of
the meeting between Russian
and American soldiers on the
Elbe, Brzezinski said that day
marked not only a moment of
? After. 20 years of cold war, he
add, both sides have acknowl-
dged that they are not going to
bush the other out of Eu-
ope. It is only when the West
bows weakness in the face of
ussian provocations, he said,
hat the Soviets' hopes of ex-
anding to the West are en-
ouraged.
For this reason, he said, no
reat;to Berlin must be tolera-
CPYRGHT
e e sai a answer o e
Russians' sealing off Berlin for
hours or days should be the
United States blocking Russian
access to Cuba for a similar
period.
Gradual evolution of East
Europe from Soviet domination
and, finally, reunification of
Germany, are the steps to press
for in the eventual rehabilitation
of Europe, he said.
The final day's luncheon
speaker, Treasury, Secretary
Henry H. Fowler, warned
against too aharp a cut in excise
taxes or too rapid a growth in
the nation's economy. 'These
could cause inflation and unne-
cessary government deficits, he
tion of Europe into East and said.
West-into Soviet and American I "The prudent amount of
pheres of influence. ! excise tax reduction we sched-
triumph over Nazi Germany,
but the beginning of the parti-
uled for the last half of this
year,' while improving our tax
structure, will also help sustain I
our economic momentum and
offer new incentives for price
reductions," he said.
Fowler's. remarks were the
first Administration effort to
restrain Congress from making
deeper reductions than the
President has sought in excise
taxes.
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