Excerpt from The Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 69: July 2, 1973I would like to say a few words about this second element because our changing rela tions with our former antagonists have caused some people to question the value of our continuing commitments to our allies.It is clear to me that the progress we have made with the Soviet Union and with China has only come about because both they and our allies have had faith in our honesty and reliability. Both friend and foe knew that we would live up to our commitments. Because they did, we have been able to negotiate with the Soviet Union and with China without undermining either our allies' confidence or our adversaries' respect for our determina tion.While I was Ambassador to Germany I had the privilege of negotiating the Berlin agreement, which eliminated that city as a source of permanent tension in east-west relations. It was clear to me throughout those negotiations that the reality of our commitments to nato was a major factor in the successful conclusion of the talks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.