One month after the Yom Kippur War had exploded Henry Kissinger's Shuttle

Diplomacy, how does the Cold War look? Mr. Morgenthau had been observing the

Soviet Union since long before there was a Cold War, and his depth of knowledge is matched by his pungency of expression. HJM: "We have a very unfortunate tendency to go from one extreme to the other. Before 1970 or so, the Russians were the incarnation of evil, not only to be contained but to be rolled back and, if possible, wiped off the face of the earth. Now all of a sudden they have become friends, nice people, and we did exactly the same kind of thing with Stalin. You will remember we called Stalin 'Uncle Joe,' a very nice uncle with lots of blood on his hands ..."