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...notion of "disengagement" of hostile forces by creating a buffer zone between them has had a long appeal, and it is still strong today among statesmen and pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would...
...military reality, the buffer-zone concept is as outdated as the medieval moat. In the House of Commons last week British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd patiently explained: "With long-range aircraft, and missiles with ranges of 150 miles and more, it is impossible to disengage in the sense that may have been possible in the age of conventional weapons." The choice, said Lloyd, is between a clearly defined line, "it being known on both sides that to cross that line means war," and a "no-man's land, into which it may be tempting to infiltrate, to try some...
...U.S.S.R. might compromise on a European zone alone. In the process Germany might be left divided, a large part of the continent might conceivably be turned into a neutralized zone crisscrossed by international inspection teams, the countries themselves forced to submerge their strategic and political identities in a buffer zone between the two superpowers...
...will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...
Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish...