Beyond Helsinki

I am not, at the time of writing, privy to the deliberations of the obviously important two-day conference called by the Secretary of State, Mr. George P. Shultz, late in October as a follow-up to President Reagan’s speech before Britain’s Houses of Parliament last spring. But I do have some suggestions to make for a follow-up to the follow-up.

The President, you will remember, took a line diametrically opposite to that taken by his predecessor in his speech of May 22, 1977. Jimmy Carter called on his fellow Americans to drop their inordinate fear of Communism. Ronald Reagan dwelt on the worldwide danger of expansive Communism and called on the West to do something about it. By “doing something,’’ he meant helping to foster democratic institutions within the Soviet empire.

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I am not, at the time of writing, privy to the deliberations of the obviously important two-day conference called by the Secretary of State, Mr. George P. Shultz, late in October as a follow-up to President Reagan’s speech before Britain’s Houses of Parliament last spring. But I do have some suggestions to make for a follow-up to the follow-up.

The President, you will remember, took a line diametrically opposite to that taken by his predecessor in his speech of May 22, 1977. Jimmy Carter called on his fellow Americans to drop their inordinate fear of Communism. Ronald Reagan dwelt on the worldwide danger of expansive Communism and called on the West to do something about it. By “doing something,’’ he meant helping to foster democratic institutions within the Soviet empire.