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...federation whose eventual goal would be an independent dominion within the Commonwealth. Nyasaland, with its over 99 per cent black population, feared domination by the strong white settler population of Southern Rhodesia; but it was hoped that the Federation would help both areas economically and would constitute a buffer betwen the reactionary white government of South Africa and the pure black territories to the North...
...Chinese Communists conquered Tibet, and slowly the centuries began to topple in on the states that form a buffer between Red China and India. In Bhutan the age of the wheel began. In Nepal the politics became as complicated as the most confused European parliamentary coalition. History even came to Sikkim...
...Yorker, a daily newspaper is not only a connecting link with the outside world, but also a comforting buffer against it. Swaying in the subways, slouched in commuter trains, even making a course along the city's crowded sidewalks, he can let in the news and shut out his neighbors by huddling behind his paper. Last week New Yorkers were woefully underread and unprotected. Closed down by a strike of their deliverers were the city's nine major newspapers* with a daily circulation of some...
...foreign policy (the NATO treaty does not commit a reunified Germany to membership). If united Germany chose to join NATO, the West would not move troops into what is now East Germany (which would bring NATO some 200 miles closer to Moscow), but would leave that area as a buffer zone...
...Victims of Rapacki fever assume that the West should show itself ready to make painful sacrifices, as if a German settlement and some form of disengagement would actually "relieve tensions." But against the nebulous idea that a vacuum or a buffer contributes to peace, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd argued cogently last week: "It may well be that the world is a very much safer place if in critical areas there is a direct confrontation of the major parties and not an area of uncertainty...