Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement that "we, for our part, will never turn back to separated insecurity." But the President generously added that the U.S. welcomes "the new strength of our transatlantic allies" and sees "no contradiction between national self-respect and independent mutual reliance." As for relations with the Communist bloc, he urged the allies to "be alive to the new spirit of diversity that's now abroad in Eastern Europe" and to "be alert to any hope of stable settlement." But flexibility, he added, does not mean softness. "Danger has receded, but it has not disappeared. The task of building...
...That the Communist bloc is no longer a monolith, but has wide variations "ranging from China, which poses immediate threats to the free world, to Poland and Yugoslavia, which pose none." Only if the U.S. recognizes the existence of these variations "can we hope to act effectively upon the bloc and to turn its internal differences to our own advantage...
...split in international Communism has strengthened, not weakened, that bloc, Lipkowski said; it has given the uncommitted nations the alternative Communist models of Yugoslavia, Russia and China. France can strengthen the free world in a similar manner, by offering an alternative model of a democratic government to the United States...
While praising the recent Franco-German friendship treaty as a "great achievement," Erler emphasized that the two countries should not form a separate bloc against other Western nations. Germany and France must overcome "narrow Nationalism" and maintain their participation in the European and the Atlantic communities, he said...
...Harvard and the AEC clashed over the administration of a $5 million a year grant for the operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The University contested the AEC's right to veto the employment application of any alien and to control all information released by the CEA to Soviet bloc scientists...