Morgenthau Talks on Red Tirades; President's Role Rendered Easier

Nikita Khrushchev's violent weekend tirade may have saved the United States from an embarrassing diplomatic situation, Hans Morgenthau, visiting professor of Government, said yesterday. The Soviet premier's tactics have lightened the pressure on President Eisenhower to agree to an impromptu summit, he declared

Morgenthau refused, however, to speculate on whether the Soviet leader had committed a diplomatic blunder in his speech before the United Nations. Other considerations, he said, may have impelled Khrushchev to adopt a hard line.

Earlier, in a speech sponsored by the Hillel Society, Morgenthau threw cold water on recent debates on "the national purpose."

The very failure of the attempts of Life magazine to define a single purpose. Morgenthau declared, demonstrates the impossibility of accomplishing such a feat without doing violence to the very nature of our pluralistic society.

"American purpose is procedural, rather than substantive," he insisted. American society agrees on "the rules of the game," but allows substantive concepts to compete equally in "the market place of ideas."