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PALME: If the U.S. continues these kinds of horrors, what about the next time there is trouble in Eastern Europe? The U.S. has lost all moral grounds for complaining. It is a convergence of the Soviet and U.S. systems. The U.S. did something that the Soviets were prepared to do in Czechoslovakia. The Brezhnev and Nixon doctrines are dangerous for small countries.
SCHECTER: Does world opinion influence policy?
PALME: Yes, but not always, not in all cases and never totally. But why are the Russians still making concessions on the Soviet Jews? They were plagued badly on the Czech situation by world opinion. Nixon had many reasons to stop the bombing. World opinion was one of them.