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might have been seriously considered by the Soviet Union, assuming
that it was ever advantageous to the West (which is uncertain) is
now past, and it is highly unlikely that the West could offer the
Soviet Union a sufficiently appealing package-deal which could re-
sult in the Soviet granting of independence to Eastern Europe.
(3) An acceptance by the United States of continued Soviet domina-
tion of Eastern Europe is contrary to American interests, given the
overall conflict with the Soviet Union; it would not be accepted
by the American people; and it would have the effect of strengthening
the Soviet bloc by stimulating anti-Western resentment in Eastern
Europe.
Western policy should have a dual character. First, it ought
to emphasize, for psychological and moral reasons, our continued
demand for national self-determination for Eastern Europe. Secondly,
this continued demand should be matched by the policy of peaceful
transformstion of these regimes from communist-type Soviet-sponsored
systems into some form of social democracy closely tied to all-
European development but not aimed against the Soviet Union. The
United States must maintain its formal position of rejecting Soviet
domination over the area and of insisting on national self-determina-
tion for it. We must condemn every Soviet abuse and we must contin-
uously highlight the Soviet denial of freedom to Eastern Europe.
Even in the face of Soviet sensitivity to such charges, we must not
allow the Soviet Union to maintain the position that peaceful co-
existence involves the Soviet right to intervene in the Western orbit
which is allegedly subject to internal contradictions and change but
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