CABLE TO BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM LARRY EAGLEBURGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-1-94-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: December 20, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/22: LOC-HAK-259-1-94-0
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FM GENEVA
TO THE WHITE HOUSE
S E C R E T 202317Z
FM EAGLEBURGER 998.
FOLLOWING IS SECRE?TARY'S ARRIVAL STATEMENT IN GENEVA:
I: HAVE, CLIME TO GENEVA TODAY,, AT "THE .BEHEST OF THE
THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CAUSE. OF PEACE.
PRESIDENT OF
THE FATE OF ARABS AND JEWS HAS BEEN INEXTRICABLY L INEP THROUGHOUT'
THEIR HISTORY, RISING _A' FALL ING TOGETHER. I N RECENT C.EUTUR IESBOTH
HAD BEEN REDUCED . TO AN'EQUALLY CRUEL STATE -- THE ONE DISPERSED AND
PERSECUTED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THE OTHER DEPRIVED OF AUTONOMY AND
FREEDOM IN ITS OWN FORMER EMPIRE. BUT O.VER.THE PAST QUARTO CENTURY BOTH `HAVE STOOD ONTHE'VERG;.E""OF OVERCOMING' THEIR PAST, NO"LONGER
DE FORCES BUT BY THEIR STRUGGLE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
RESTRAINED 8Y QUTSI
THUS IN THE LAND OF ARABS AND JEWS, WHERE THE REALITY OF MISTRUST
AND HATE SO TRAGICALLY CONTRADICTS THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE WHICH ORIGI-
NATES THERE, IT :I'S ESSENTIAL FOR
THE VOICE OF RECONCILIATION TO BE HEARD.
THE WAR THAT BEGAN LAST OCTOBER b- LIKE ITS THREE, PREDECESSORS
PROVED THE FUTILITY-OF MILITARY SOLUT.I.ONS,. THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE
ALTERNATIVE' T;O, A NEGOTIATEC SETTLEMENT OF THE"ISSUESSD LONG-IN
DISPUTE, AND TO A DETERMINATION ON THE PART . OF ALL'THE"PARTIES WHO
WILL ASSEMBLE HERE TOMORROW TO MAKE THESE NEGOTIATIONS SUCEED.
FOIZ ITS PART, THE UNITED STATES 'CLIMES HERE WITH THAT","~DE:TEI MINATION
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS INSTRUCTED ME TO ENGAGE THE INFLUENCE "ANDD,RESO]URCES
OF THE UNITED STATES IN A MAJOR EFFI RT ",,TO AC 4EIVE A J?UST' ANC) LASTING
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I SHALL CARRY DU1 MY INSTRUCTIONS WITH
ALL MY HEART AND ALL MY ENERGY.
I N MY MEETINGS WITH ARAB AND I S1AEL I LEADERS OVER THE` .CQURSE
OF THE PAST TEN DAYS I FOUND NONE W4 :. WANTED THE WAR TO CONTI'NUE'
NONE WHO WOULD NOT RECOGN I; E THAT NO i IS THE' TIME TO BREAK THE " CYCI
OF UNEASY TRUCE AND VIOLENT-;WARS
PEOPLE,"JANDyIT IS TO THE PEOPLE~WE SHALL HAVE TO ANSWER SHOULD WE
FAIL. THE MIDDLE "`EAST. WHOSE DRAMATIC, TRAGIC AND HEROIC `PEOPLES
HAVE PRODUCED THREE GREAT FAITHS IS: CHALLENGED TODAY TD ANOTHER ACT
OF FAITH; THAT HATRED CAN GIVE WAY TO RECONCILIATION; THAT PEACE'CAN
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SCOWCROFT,, MCFARLANE, JANKAs SEC?EI LE
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review completed
MORI/CDF
C03343574
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/22: LOC-HAK-259-1-94-0
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COMPROMISE OUR METHOD AND HOPE OUR INSPIRATION.
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