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New York Times | Transatlantic Peacemakers


Transatlantic Peacemakers
Western, Liberal, Democratic Order

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
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Paramerican President Bush, center, stating remarks at Andrews A.F.B. before departing for the NATO Summit in unified Berlin, Germany.

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité; France stands with the NATO
community — Transatlantic leaderships to convene for
Berlin Summit to defend & uphold world peace with strength.

By ARTHUR de LAMONT and STEVEN EISEN —September 1992

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      WASHINGTON — A Washingtonian Journey, President George H.W. Bush, waved to reporters, clad in a dark blue suit & blue tie, from the West Wing colonnade right outside of the Oval Office. From there, he continued to the South Lawn from which he boarded the awaiting Marine One. The short trip, arriving in Andrews Air Force Base on the outskirts of Washington, lead the President to an awaiting Air Force One, there Mr. Bush gave a few remarks besides Air Force officer staff, and before Air Force One's iconic fuselage. ". . . The Transatlantic Alliance is strong, the stability of the world is enduring, This is NATO: Her values of Transatlantic Democracy, Stability, Peace, Economic Freedoms. That of the vision of the Freedom Fighters of the World War, the Peacemakers throughout the centuries, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky, now, This is my mission. And I will complete it. I've gotta board my flight . . .", jogging up the airstair, Mr. Bush would turn to wave to the crowd of civilians wishing their President a safe journey, before entering, and finally, lifting off on Air Force One to Europe.

      Mr. Bush heads for the NATO Summit, called for by NATO General Secretary Manfred Wörner to be held in Berlin during the last week of September, where NATO's peace agenda will be established as well as the security concerns of the Transatlantic Alliance. A welcoming site for the Paramerican delegation to see French participation lasting, as well as continued British, Irish, Canadian, Italian, German, Greek, Danish and Beneluxian participation. After the NATO Summit, the Bush Administration intends to propose a peace summit alongside NATO partners with Soviet leader Petrov, as with a united and empowered West, continued peace talks may occur to ensure the stability of the world, only time pending if the leadership of Moscow seeks such a stable & peaceful world, as Petrov's predecessors have, as the former General Secretaries Mikali Gorbheov & Anatoly Lukyanov overseeing German Reunification, or even Petrov's own previous actions, despite actions of international aggression, of overseeing the independence of the Baltic peoples. The Transatlantic West, at least, will continue to carry out its mission for a stable world, through former President Ronald Reagan's iconic words "Peace Through Strength".

      Reaffirmation, a Historical Occurance.

      PARIS — French President François Mitterrand stood at the Elysée Palace to make one thing clear; France stands for European & World Peace, and France stands for the decades of Transatlantic relations that defined and upheld the Liberal Democratic Order — With French halt of withdrawal and continued German & Italian NATO membership, the Western World has made it clear that no foreign intentions can divide in order to seek a less safe world — Western Stability is a cornerstone of peace as Mr. Mitterrand's impactful address spreads across the world, only those who seek aggression would fear or despise it, and those who truly a stable and cooperative world, would praise it. As Mr. Mitterrand declared: "We want to keep the peace . . . We want to keep working for a peaceful Europe . . . But peace can only come with sovereignty, and that is why France has chosen, with its allies of forever in Western Europe, to stay in the Atlantic Alliance." France's commitment and reaffirmation comes out of extensive productive talks between Washington & Paris, and among the allied governments of Western Europe. Mr. Mitterand made it well known that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has and will continue to remain strong for the defense of the Transatlantic "An Attack on One, is an Attack on All" peace doctrine, as well as the West's allies — For with NATO, France has found its solution to the question concern hovering over the French people as Mr. Mitterand declared it's current status of: "Our sovereignty has found itself threatened. Our relations, with our allies and partners, have been hurt." . . . No more is such the case with the end of the NATO withdrawal process.


      Two Reaffirmations; Left, Nixon & De gaulle — Right, Bush & Mitterand.

      “Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO's Military Command and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil, Paramerican President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Paramericans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!" That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle. So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II — DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered — Beyond LBJ's Texan expressions, relations between the U.S. & France remained positive and De Gaulle found a friend a few years later in President Richard Nixon, elected in 1968 and understood De Gaulle's framework to continue on the Transatlantic alliance. De Gaulle & Nixon got along well, as their world view connected and it was often said that Nixon was "the first Paramerican President De Gaulle liked since Eisenhower", Eisenhower, despite the every now and then disagreement between Washington & Paris, was a man De Gaulle respected tremorously, from their War years, and here was Nixon, Eisenhower's VP, as President.

      Although there were LBJ-De Gaulle tensions between Mitterand & Reagan, President Bush's predecessor, nor between Bush & Mitterand, on the contrary actually, the December 1991 withdrawal of French participation in NATO sent shockwaves across the world, and her stability. Under the Washington Treaty, a nation will inform NATO of their desire to withdraw, with a one-year withdrawal period. Such a period, the peace & stability of the world was under uncertainty until now with French reaffirmation to NATO, certainty once again was achieved. Mr. Bush & Mr. Mitterand have been in extensive talks, and between the governments of Paris & Washington, all leading to the reaffirmation that mirrors that between De Gaulle & Nixon. The importance of this relationship and that of the relationship the United States has towards not only France, but also Italy, Denmark, the Benelux, Germany, Greece, Great Britain and Ireland cannot be understated — Furthermore one could note the sheer difference between the East's younger, inexperienced leadership, compared to those of the West — great Statesmen such as Mr. Bush and Mr. Mitterand, both fighters against the Axis, Bush in the Pacific against the Imperialist Axis Chinese, Mitterand built up a resistance network, composed mainly of former POWs, for the fight against the Axis in Europe, now together to defend the common good of the world, once again as they have done for decades as statesmen of the Transatlantic Peacemakers.

      Arthur de Lamont, The Times’s global politics correspondent, currently
      living in Paris, France as the Berlin bureau chief correspondent for the
      NYT's Paris Elysée offices.

      Steven Eisen is The Times’s International bureau chief in Washington,
      where he has covered White House relations with the International
      World since 1973.

      Western Future: Where Does NATO & Allied World Go Now?
      Op-Ed | New York Times Editorial written by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

      Regardless of exaggerated fear-driven responses from East, one thing now stands clear. The Western World is positioned to continue its economic prosperity and security enhancement. Mr. Bush travels to Berlin with confidence, the confidence that comes out of knowing the worst days are far behind, regardless of those who may seek otherwise. The confidence of enduring battle as an aviator during the Second World War, of enduring diplomatic tensions throughout the 50s & 60s, and being part of the Nixon-Ford-Rockefeller Washingtonian staffers, despite sitting out during the Kennedy (EMK) years, for Denete between Washington & Moscow — and finally with Reagan's enforcement which lead to the building of peace in the late 80s that resulted in German reunification and a reduction in Soviet & U.S. nuclear arms, despite continued Soviet aggressions nevertheless, Mr. Bush goes to Berlin standing tall for the United States, for the Transatlantic Alliance, and for the Western World which expands from the Americas, to Europe, to Asia, to the Middle East, to Africa.


      Staffers building up the NATO star at the Brussels, Benelux HQ, late 1960s.

      My years of experience in the diplomatic arena, of which some has been with Mr. Bush gives me also the confidence of knowing the stewardship of Paramerica is in steady hands. For what must be done in this NATO Berlin summit is clear; the United States must show to its NATO allies its prepared to stand and fight for the security of NATO, and of that of the greater Western world. Through continued military agreements, and all the like obvious to anyone in the corridors of Washington or the European capitals, Ivy League & Military universities, or even, the readers of this important international paper — the world is safer with a Western world that can coordinate for peace, yet prepare for war, as it has been for decades concerning the nuclear front. I have no doubt continued efforts for peace, should our Eastern counterparts desire it, will occur, and if not, there is no strengthen in cowardly aggressions. The world we live in today is too mature for such tactics, the framers of the post-war world, from the horror of the World War — knew this. As most diplomats know today, for to quote a great yet fallen contemporary, whom I knew during my post-Harvardian years:

      ". . . In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours . . . and even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest. . . So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal . . ."

      Quote Spoken by President John F. Kennedy, June 1963.

      Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, former National Security Advisor under President
      Nixon, and former Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and
      Rockefeller. Harvard Fellow and currently resides in New York City.

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