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Thursday, March 4, 1965COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOFWill Russia Play Brzezinski Chess Game in Asian War?(Continued from Page 1)showed by our raids that the price the Soviets had paid was historically justified.”Norman Thomas, the Socialist leader, who also participated in the forum, was quick to see the import of Dr. Brzezinski’s remarks. He called the Vietnam struggle “a chess game played with people,” and noted that ‘'it’s an irrational world in which this kind of chess is being played.”Who is to say, Mr. Thomas asked, that the Russians will “play the game” according to the academician’s textbook? Will the Soviets view the raids in light of what Professor Brzezinski terms the changed concept “of the relationship of violence to historical change,” or will they, in the words of Norman Thomas, “have to act somehow just to save face”?The theory that the Soviet Union will take no action when confronted with a series of United States provocations indeed seemsfar-fetched. Dr. Brzezinski stated yesterday that “the two major powers have learned that mutual self-restraint must govern their foreign policies.” But has “self-restraint” characterized U.S. raids on North Vietnam, and how long can we expect “self-restraint” to govern reaction in the Kremlin?In fact, the traditional pattern of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union seems to have been reversed. It is Premier Kosygin who, according to a New York Times dispatch, gave “expressions of confidence in the eventual triumph of ‘reason’ and of the principle of friendship among nations.” And it is the United States that remains silent, while continuing to commit aggressive acts.Norman Thomas saw this clearly yesterday. The United States, he said, “is fighting Communism by emulating the worst things theCommunists do.”If the Brzezinski thesis is car-r ried to its logical conclusion, the Soviet Union was perfectly justified in crushing the Hungarian rebellion in 1956. It can be argued that the United States, having decided that Russia “had become resigned to a defeat,” was ready to move in to protect the new government. But the Soviet show of force bound the United States to a policyof inaction.Is something missing in this argument? Norman Thomas correctly analyzed the United States position: “All considerations of morality have been left out. We are not defending liberty in Vietnam. We are not defending democracy.”CLASSIFIEDYou know it and ! know it. There's no getting around it. Tomorrow night is the record hop. If you miss out, you'1! be sorry. Don't say I didn't warn you.875RUSSIAN BALALAIKA $20 Rl 9-6177881WANTED: Female student to sh are 4-room furnished apt. 514 West 114 St.r'^ll 7AO I AAOP M
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