Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldwide public opinion guessing and fearful of our intentions is too great a price to pay for this doubtful political advantage. The strength of the free world is based upon genuine cooperation and mutual trust among the free nations, not upon our ability to confuse and frighten the Communist bloc or to bolster the illusions of the Chinese Nationalist Government...
...German reparations, but none of these sources can be expected to keep flowing indefinitely. Unless Israel can solve her economic problems, the Arabs will have won at least half their battle without fighting. Diplomatically, the Israelis fear that they are fast becoming isolated. An alliance with the Soviet bloc is out of the question, but entrance into present Middle Eastern defense arrangements is apparently also impossible as long as relations with the Arab states remain what they are. And the Israelis have lost much of the good-will of world opinion because of incidents like the Gaza affair...
...Russians have H-bombs; the British will produce them. The United States concentrates on such weapons to offset the superior manpower of the Soviet bloc. Thus we have a competition in means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed...
...Although the Soviet bloc hauls 85% of its freight by rail (v. less than 50% in the U.S.), it has only half as many locomotives as the U.S. and Western Europe combined, and only 3% of them are diesels or electric. Little Britain has more freight cars than vast Russia...
...Kremlin last week also sent a note to Tokyo, suggesting a willingness to end the state of war with Japan. Everybody but the Soviet-bloc countries already...