NOT MUCH CHANCE FOR A 'SELLOUT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200310073-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: June 15, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Not Much Chance
For a 'Sellout'
By JOLV4 CHAMBERLAIN
T HIS Is Captive Nations Week, as proclaimed, per-
haps with some embarrassment, by President
Kennedy -- and it comes, truly, at a strange con.
Junction of the stars.
On the one hand, the sponsors of the Week, the
insistently active National-Captive Nations Committee,
with Herbert Hoover as Its Honorary
Chairman and the fire-breathing
Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky of George-
town University as its working head,
is busy deploring our "many grave
sins of omission in the Cold War, for
which we shall unquestionably pay
heavily later."
"Beyond all rationality," says Dr.
Dobriansky, "is the thought of allow-
ing the avowed enemy a 'breather'
to put his empire in order and
.at is conceived in ex- Captive Nations Committee. The list includes Senators
strengthen it for further thrusts
of is a 4
against the Free World." CiAMBERLAIN to the
While Dr. Dobriansky speaks with an iron voice, consent" clause of the Constitution. It is imposs
however, the Administration obviously hopes that to visualize two-thirds of the Senate signing a
K:hrushchev, with Undersecretary of State Avere1tt the hopes of the East European captive peoples, or
Harriman waiting on his doorstep, will not take any granting what would amount to -recognition of the,
of this "sturm and drang" stuff on the part of thc'~
Captive long-term legitimacy of the East'German Communist:
Nations Committee t0o's~riously. ti State.
It is not that anybody cor.templates a conscious
Ii you don't believe the Senate would put its?.
"sellout" of Eastern Europeanl (topes in exchange fof collective foot down on a treaty that wound consign
a nuclear test-ban pact with flit Soviets. The idea of', to the Soviets in perpetuity
tuAt take-
,
"
w1 na was first expiortcs,
an "opening to the East,
' a look at the list of honorary members of the National
by the Vatican, is something
pectation of a quid for a quo.
'is that Soviet Russia has acts
mutation, or a sea-change,.W
The "things that aria
Hungary, so the hopes
secular or political interbj
be a'lowed to preach and
out hindrance; and sord
might be expected to foils,
of religious tensions.
the "opening to the 3,
Nations Week, hove!
"Crumbs!" He also got,
Administration, for p
man may carry wi
settle for crumbs.
KHRUSHCHEV
willing to accept, a
covf~r nuclear exp10~j
provided the NAWri*i
...~Seni1i
'be theory behind it all Paul Douglas of Illinois
Frank Lausche of Ohio, Ralph,
,
My been undergoing a Yarborough of Texas, Keating and Javits of New York;,
ti is ready to ease up Kuchel of California, Hugh Scott of Penut, ylvanlai
's" in Poiand and Thruston Morton of Kentucky, and Hubert Humphrey,,
of Minnesota. A bl-partisan list that crosses all lineso
will be freed fro whether of party or 'ideology.
ice; the churches wiles Moreover there IA more than idealism involved. A
iaetinures of civil liberty
ku atmosphere purged
or icciuding along with it a Soviet guarantee of free
c!ec'tions in the East European satellites, will almost
certainly never be made.
For one thing. a pact Is a treaty, and all treaties
Scott of Pennsylvania has a Polish 'and Hungarian
vote to worry about; a Lausche,.with much of his
Eastern Europe watching him. In Connecticut,, Senator.
'jktl the foregoing case for
~t tlon that the Kennedy
honias Dodd cannot, Uve politically withm rimpport
rom people with,J'oush ti.S::..`_", -
xchange of "declarations" on the part of thertlATO
Moscow, will not dare to run any Constitutional gauntlet, for it would not
have the force of a treaty. But one cannot conceive of
such a "declaration" passing muster with the. West
on record as being Germans or with DeGaulle.
grecment that would The worries about a "sellout" this week, then, are
~'k ,air or underwater not very real, even if Averell Harriman might be
IN AAhady to sign a non- complaisant, which is extremely doubtful, anyway.
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