Friday, Jan. 20, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Allies Welcome End of Lull in U.S. Policy Making
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
As a new administration takes over in Washington, there also ends a period which United States' allies dread and abhor.
It is that period of interregnum between the November elections and inauguration day in which the U.S. allies feel that United States policy drives and that major decisions are put off while an old administration waits to turn over leadership to a new one.
To be sure, firm steps have been taken in the last two months.
THE EISENHOWER administration moved to slow the flight of gold from the United States.
It broke off relations with Cuba and served stern warning against any attempt by the Castroites to export their revolution to other Latin American nations.
The United States has given strong support to Communist-threatened Laos, even at the risk of a shooting war.
But America's allies feel that these were steps forced by circumstances and do not necessarily represent the thinking of the new administration.
At the French foreign office in Paris there is fear of the consequences of the United States' go-it-alone policy in Laos. The French believe that the absence of a united policy there is just one more opportunity for Nikita Khrushchev to drive a wedge between the western allies.
NATO FACES momentous decisions, among them one on an American proposal that NATO be armed with nuclear-tipped Polaris missiles
and that NATO itself be made nuclear power.
But, while there is a difference of opinion among the NATO allies on the merits of the proposal, no firm decision can be taken until the new Kennedy administration declares itself. To implement the proposal new legislation must be passed by Congress.
West Germany awaits anxiously proposals the new administration may make for settlement of the Berlin question.
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has a personal problem. He is in the midst of an election campaign and wants to demonstrate quickly that cordial relations exist between him and the new administration.
INAUGURATION DAY in Washington signals the start of new dip-
romatic activity in Western Europe, and meetings carefully scheduled to take place after the world learns of President Kennedy's policies.
In Brussels there will be a meeting of foreign ministers from France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. A vital subject will be the United States' attitude toward the European common market.
President Charles de Gaulle of France and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan have a meeting scheduled, and so do De Gaulle and Adenauer. These will involve sweeping reviews of disarmament, nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union, Red China and the possibility of a spring summit. Then the trek to Washington will begin.
Cigar Smoking Returns to Capital
NEW YORK - (UPI) - The country's cigar makers are hoping to get a big lift out of the new administration in Washington.
President Kennedy is a cigar smoker — the first one to occupy the White House in this century. The only President of the past particularly noted for his love of cigars was Gen. Ulyshes S. Grant.
But what really raises the manufacturers' hopes is that Kennedy, at 43, is a cigar smoking young man of world prominence and distinction. They have been hoping for a quarter century for somebody like that to come along.
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