Russia Could Play Peace Maker in M.E. Nixon
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The value of the Four Power
talks, the President told some 200
newsmen, is that they "can indi-
cate those areas where they be-
lieve the parties directly involved
in the Mid East could have profit-
able discussions. At the present
time, they are having no discus-
sions at all. And second—and this
is even the more important part
of it—from the Four Power con-
ference can come an absolute
settlement . . . and that is a major
essential to any kind of a peaceful
power guarantee of the settle-
ment."
He noted however that Israel
and the neighboring Arab nations
cannot be expected . to concur
in a settlement unless "they
think there is a better chance
that it will be guaranteed in the
future than has been the case in
the past." The President, noting
that the Soviet rearming of the
Arabs was responsible for - the
"crisis," said he believed Mos-
cow nevertheless wanted to
avoid a "confrontation" with the
U.S. that could occur if events
in the Mideast got out of control.
His "cautious conclusion" was
that "the Soviet Union will play
possibly a peace-making role in
the Mid East" as well as in Viet-
nam. "I say a cautious conclusion
because I base this only on talks
that have taken place up to this
time, but we are going to explore
the road all the way that we can,
because, let's facewithout the
Soviet Union's cooperation, the Mid
East is going to continue to be a
terrible dangerous area .. ."
(Prior to his departiure for Wash-
ington to confer with President
Nixon, Israel Foreign Ministei Ab-
ba Eban said in Jerusalem that
Russia's participation in Big Four
talks on the Middle East will be
"suspect.")
He said that "We are far away
from the time when the Arabs
and the Israelis can sit at a ne-
gotiating table."
The President went on to say:
"I believe that by the time we
very carefully go down this road
of bilateral consultations first —
Four Power consultations —(and,
incidentally, we're going to con-
sult with the Israelis when they
come here—Mr. Eban is going to
be -here—there will be, I am sure,
consultations on the other side as
well.
"I think that when we complete
our course of action and come up,
if we can, with a Four Power
recommendation for proceeding,
that then it might be possible to
bring both sides to a conference
table. That is our hope."
The President also said that the
Mid East would be the first subject
of formal talks between the U.S.
and Russian governments on the
highest level, if they took place.
He said that the U.S. is not tell-
Cologne Official Charged
in Munich for Killings
MUNICH (JTA) — The Munich
war crimes prosecutor has brought
charges against Theo Lipps, a
ranking police official in Cologne
after the war, who is accused of
participation in the murder of -thou-
sands of Jewish civilians in Russia
during 1941.
In Bonn, the municipality turned
down a request by the extreme
right-wing National Democratic
Party (NPD) to rent the city hall
(Beethoven Hall) for a meeting of
the party's chairmanship. The city
authorities got around a court rul-
ing that they could not deny the
hall to any renter by pointing out
that the request was not for a
local meeting but one of the na-
tional chairmanship of the reputed
ly neo-Nazi NPD.
The NPD is seeking its first seats
in the Bundestag in this year's
federal elections. Adolf von Thad-
den, the party leader, has predict-
ed it would send 50 delegates to
Bonn.
ing Russia that there are any pre-
conditions—such as show of good-
will on the Mid East issue — for
talks it wants on strategic arms
limitations.
"Our attitude toward the Soviet
is not a high handed one of trying
to tell them that you do this or
we won't talk. Our attitude is very
conciliatory . . ."
Mr. Nixon pointed out that as a
result of his meetings in Europe
with President Charles de Gaulle
and Prime Minister Wilson, the
French and British positions are
closer to America's than ever be-
fore.
Asked by a reporter, whether
he would visit Israel (as suggested
by Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Robert Finch in Israel
last week) Mr. Nixon sidestepped
any commitment on such a trip.
The reporter also cited Latin
America as a possible destination
for a future Nixon trip.
The President said he had no
current plans for any additional
overseas junket, noting with a
smile—apparently alluding to the
Finch comment—that this was the
case although "other travelers
have committed" to various trips
abroad.
He apparently reinforced his op-
position to any enforced Mid East
settlement when he said that
Europeans had expressed concern
that a U.S.-USSR "condominium"
would make decisions affecting
their future without consulting
them. This, he said, will not hap-
pen.
A question was raised in the
mind of observers concerned with
the Jerusalem issue when he com-
mented that the U.S. was studying
establishment of formal diplomatic
relations with the Vatican. He said
Washington wanted to maintain
contact with the Vatican on for-
eign policy matters in which it
has a "very great interest" and
"influence"—and this could mean
the future of the Holy Places.
The meeting of President Nix-
on with French President Charles
de Gaulle did not change the
American stand that bilateral
talks should, precede any Four
Power talks on the Middle East,
State Department spokesman
Robert J. McCloskey said. He in-
dicated that the U.S. position re-
mained the same on the Mid East
as before the Nixon trip.
McCloskey said, "We are still in
the round of bilateral conversa-
tions." Ambassador Charles Yost,
U.S. envoy to the United Nations,
has been talking with his opposite
numbers from France, Britain and
the Soviet Union.
State Department sources said
meanwhile that the Middle East
figured prominently in Mr. Nixon's
discussions with European leaders.
They said that it was generally
understood by the European gov-
ernments that preliminary bi-lat-
eral talks would precede a Big
Four conference.
White House sources said today
that Mr. Nixon would publicly de-
fine his latest thinking on the Mid
East situation during his Tuesday
night press conference which will
be devoted to foreign policy. State
Department officials said t h e
President was apparently review-
ing the U.S. stand in the Arab-
Israeli conflict in light of his meet-
ings last week with President de
Gaulle' and other West European
leaders.
A State Department spokesman
said he 'knew of no plans for
early Four Power talks on the
Middle East which diplomatic
reports from London said would
begin early next week. The offi-
cial, Carl Bartch, said he had
no information to support the
London reports.
He noted that the U.S. is still
engaged in bilateral conversations
at the United Nations with the
representatives of Soviet Russia,
Britain and France. The purpose
of those talks is to ascertain
whether sufficient common ground
exists for multilateral or Four
Power discussions to seek a solu-
tion of the Middle East crisis. So
far nothing has emerged from the
bilateral talks, it was indicated.
The Washington Post reported
that President Nixon agreed to bi-
lateral talks between the U.S. and
the Soviet Union outside the frame-
work of the UN discussions to see
if there were any areas of agree-
ment on the Middle East.
The head of the Czechoslovakian
Journalists Union was attacked
for alleged "Zionist" connections
in the latest issue of the Soviet
occupation newspaper, "Zpany,"
according to reports received here.
The Soviet periodical said that
Vlado Kaspar, union chairman,
helped train Jewish youths for Is-
raeli military service and later
took part in "Israeli aggression."
Russian troops helped distribute
the newspaper to factories and
elsewhere.
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