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Without complex airplane or missile-weapons systems no nation can hope to equal the might of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., even if it cuts quite a figure among its atom-less neighbors. But the world of the abundant atom offers infinite opportunities for small-scale tyranny, blackmail and bluster that may in time involve bigger nations. The changes make more imperative man's need to develop the willingness and devise a way to keep international law and order...
Play the Theme. As the Khrushchevian bluster and bromide garnered newspaper space, the real climax was approaching. In Washington, President Eisenhower huddled with his State Department advisers and reworked his speech. U.S. diplomats sensed that Russia had made a fundamental error by taking on the U.N. itself. With that as a theme, the U.S. built its position: while the Communists were repudiating the U.N., the U.S. would uphold and strengthen it. This was likely to win support from the new African nations, for whom the only protected road to real independence, and the most important amphitheater for their own thoughts...
...always sounded a sweet horn to indicate "yes," a sour one for "no" (the part, recently played by Lew Anderson, was originated by Bob Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures: Mr. Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children in the audience always booed and hissed); Dilly-Dally, the sad-sack tot; Flubadub, the curious crossbreed with a duck's head, spaniel's ears, giraffe's neck, dachshund's body, seal's flippers, pig's tail...
...Vasily Kuznetsov, who was strongly urging armed entry into Katanga, hoping thereby to drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...
...together." But within 24 hours Banda gave an interview suggesting that he had only postponed his more extreme demands: "I am coming back to England very soon. And next time, I shall say, 'Now, Mr. Colonial Secretary, I want this and this and this.'" Such bluster might only be meant to reassure extremists back home. A reporter pressed a further question: Is independence for Nyasaland ten years away? "Half that," replied Banda confidently...