Vishnevskiy 25 November Report
Moscow TASS International Service in English 0620 GMT 25 November 1963--L
(Text) Moscow--New U.S. President Lyndon Johnson held a
number of urgent conferences yesterday in an atmosphere of great secrecy, but
two facts became known to the correspondents.
First,. most journalists believe that the President asked the
members of the government to continue fulfilling their duties; the American
diplomatic representatives in foreign countries also remain in their posts.
Second, the main topic of the conference in the White House, as it is intimated,
were questions of foreign policy. "Numerous conjectures are made over these two
announcements," Vishnevskiy points out.
The correspondent stresses that the prospects of the new
President's foreign policy are of the greatest interest in Washington.
"Apparently it is not accidental that international problems were given such
importance at the first governmental conference." Vishnevskiy recalls that the
late President Kennedy repeatedly stressed the need for a realistic foreign
policy course. This is why political observers are guessing about the role to be
played by the new President--will he freeze the present diplomatic position of
the United States, will he develop it, and in what direction? These are
difficult questions and so far, naturally, no one can give a definite answer to
them."
Vishnevskiy draws attention to the fact that even now, in
these days of mourning, many local commentators are already pondering how
Soviet-American relations will develop further.