They Gave the Orders
The visit produced a great Communist triumph. It cannot yet be measured because we live in an era of secret diplomacy-a throwback to Yalta-in which the public is kept in the dark about the true state of affairs between nations. (My own belief, on the strength of what both men said after leaving Camp David, is that Khrushchev and Eisenhower entered into a secret understanding on Berlin, involving substantial Western concessions.) But the triumph is established, whether or not we made concrete concessions: in the propaganda dimension, the Communists slaughtered us.
Comments