On the Right

New York, April 6—The ironies are almost unbearable. Consider:

Time Magazine: “It was an extraordinary scene. There, in Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger’s antique-filled office in Bonn, sat Soviet Ambassador Semyon (‘Scratchy’) [‘Scratchy’ to whom? U Thant? Leonard Lyons?] Tsarapkin. Painstakingly, the Russian explained Moscow’s grave concern over the first China border clash early this month to the head of a government long reviled by the Soviets as the chief villain and menace in Europe. Patiently, the German listened as Tsarapkin charged that the ‘chauvinist foreign policy of Peking’ threatened the cause of peace and stability in the world.” Had enough? No. The effrontery is incomplete . . .