Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could the men who are trying to hold together the pieces of China's political puzzle fail to be aware of the political pattern which Russia had imposed on Eastern Europe in the course of its liberation. To them the threat of a bloc of Soviet-dominated buffer states, torn from China, and extending from Manchuria to Sinkiang (see map) was very real. Should their fears be realized, a climacteric change would have taken place in the pattern of contemporary history...
...vastness of the Allied victory and Germany's tremendous defeat, one curious fact was likely to be overlooked. Never before in history have western Europe and eastern Europe faced each other except across a buffer of German or Austrian power. For some 500 years most of the history of Europe has been a series of variations, mostly tragic, on this geographic and political fact. Victory in Europe had finally destroyed this historic pattern. Henceforth western Europe and eastern Europe must live face to face...
Furthermore, if U.S. exports once again become greater than imports, the foreign gold and dollar hoard will prove a temporary buffer against the artificial exchange controls which helped strangle foreign trade before the war. Said the Reserve Board: "Foreign countries will be able to meet larger deficits in their international transactions with the U.S., should such deficits occur, without resorting to currency depreciation, exchange control or drastic measures of internal deflation...
...Hines sliphorn man uses buffer on his slide...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...