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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 10, 1981
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Mr. Birnbaum concludes his essay by saying that "the American assumption
that the Federal Republic can be persuaded or pushed into permanent
alignment with the United States is not realistic.
I have said that a
Soviet campaign to end the Atlantic Alliance is possible: to win it, the
Soviet Union would have to be ready to undo the Warsaw Pact in its present
form.
Without a policy for next week, let alone the next decade, our
present government prefers not to think about such eventualities. It is
time that some of us did: there might well be profound gains for all of us
in an alteration of Europe's postwar map."
The author does not realize that instead of "profound gains," such a
reshuffling would lead to grave national peril for Britain and America.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau