Note 87 — Chapter V · THE PROTRACTED CONFLICT CONCEPT CRITICIZED

Congressional Record, August 2, 1961, p. 13436, col. 3,b. A government official in a position to know the viewpoint of current policy-makers, told Edith Kermit Roosevelt that: “The purpose of American policy is to work for a merger of East and West. It is believed accommodation can be reached as the two systems become more alike politically and economically: As the United States adopts a more collectivist pattern of federal control, while at the same time a consolidation of Soviet rule makes genocide purges, and other less-pleasant attributes of the police state unnecessary.” (“Policy of ‘No Win’ Now Official”, Dallas Morning News, May 27, 1962.)