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My interest is in what an old man of the establishment then wants to do. He wants to achieve "a more workable consensus behind our policy towards the Soviet Union." When I hear the word "consensus," in such a context, I reach for my water pistol. It is always the conviction of the George F. Kennans, which seems to grow stronger with their own debilitation, that a consensus may somehow be manufactured to paste over differences.