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step towards a new partition. Considerations of national interest
in turn then create pressures for closer Polish-Soviet ties. Simi-
larly with Czechoslovakia in the case of the Sudetenland.
Given the fact that some of the European communist-ruled
states identify themselves with European culture and resent the
abyss dividing them from Western Europe and driving them further
into the Euro-Asian bloc, efforts to promote the closest all-
European links without directly challonging the power of the present
communist regines and, even more important, the basically socialist
organization of their societies, might eventually have the effect
of loosening slowly the close ties binding these states to the Soviet
Union. The communist states in Eastern Europe should be continuously
invited to join in all-European undertakings of a social, economic
and political character, even if the communist regimes at first
re ject such invitetions. In all future planning for European de-
velopment ostentatious consideration should be given to the ad-
vantages that Eastern Europe would derive from such participation.
Efforts to promote intellectual and cultural exchanges between them
and Western European nations. through such devices as the extension
of Eurovision to Eastern Europe, gradual extension of free travel,
mutual abolition of visas, as well as through exchanges, should be
promoted to a far greater extent than has been the case heretofore.
The United States should take the lead in encouraging the Western
European nations to engage in such operations and could offer indirect
financial assistance. To the extent possible, the United States
should occasionally engage in demonstrative gestures of good will
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum.
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