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Organization Man. Blake's religious life at Princeton also had its traumatic side. Before Blake arrived in 1924, Frank Buchman-patriarch, prophet and founder (in 1938) of Moral Re-Armament-had swooped down on Princeton with what was later to be known as the Oxford Group, M.R.A.'s predecessor. Blake found the college seething with eager young men taking their friends to weekend "house-parties" to change their lives by "God-guidance" salted with public confession of teen-age sins...
...danger of an explosion exists, whatever the wishes of the chief protagonists." He rejects as unfeasible a series of proposals, including disengagement, and then affirms a plan as technical as the others, indistinguishable to the layman from any number of similar programs. It involves an agreed level of armament in Central Europe, partial pull-back of Big Four forces, and employment of "the eastern borders of a unified Germany" as the central dividing line. Yet only six pages above Kissinger had remarked that "the Kremlin has made clear innumerable times that it would not tolerate the overthrow of a Communist...
...other side but in the control arrangement." This would not be true, he asserts, of total disarmament, a slight evasion of which would result in enormous gain, and which would thereby prove an irresistible temptation for the aggressive power. Stabilization at a relatively high level of armament, on the other hand, would require a large-scale evasion in order to produce any benefit...
...possible negotiated (3) Begin an adequately conceptual technical appraisal of the factors economic, military, political, and ) which are involved in the and which must be re-structured to bring about a stable process national interaction; (4) Focus Jor effort along the lines of arms control and eventual armament with correlated compromises; (5) Search for modes of-and new motivations International cooperation; (6) at Harvard a course in disarms stressing original papers by groups, and taught by Professor man, if possible. (My intense object to his recent contributions are suit of a conviction that he is of extraordinarily Important work field...
...speech he defined national security as having a defense strong enough to scare off any would-be attackers. He said the United States has such a defense today, and that he could help the country keep it. He cited his membership on various Congressional committees on armament as evidence of this ability...