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William A. Rusher, publisher of the National Review, last night said that the shift of the balance of power in the United Nations to the Afro-Asian bloc was transformed it into a possible "instrumentality of measureless disaster for the free world...
...examination of its relation to the U.N. This appraisal must be based on recognition of involvement in a "cold war with mortal stakes." That is, we must follow the course profitable to our own national interests, and not become, like the Secretary-General, a "political slave of the Afro-Asian bloc...
...warned that the interests of these new nations "are similar to those of the USSR in many cases," and noted a growing tendency by the Afro-Asian nations to drift leftward and operate as a block...
...West believed that the Russians sincerely wanted a worldwide test-ban agreement. Perhaps they did. They were aware, after all, that nuclear fallout-even from their own weapons-could kill Communists as well as nonCommunists. Moscow also seemed as sensitive as the West to the deep opposition among the Afro-Asian neutrals to further test explosions. The Russians also seemed to view the test ban as a device to close the membership of the "nuclear club.'' At the Geneva conference, Russian delegates hinted privately that they had no desire to see nuclear bombs in the hands...
...peace and security." Western experts guess that if the official agenda is observed, the West may expect nothing more than one more verbal flogging for "imperialism" and colonialism, along with exhortations for everyone, especially the West, to disarm completely-and, of course, to give aid generously. Hopes for any Afro-Asian condemnation of Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe are relatively slim. Nehru, for one, tends to pass over irritating disputes as a sort of natural legacy of "the continent of hate...