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...Neutral Belt." The new Russian talk is of a vast "neutral belt" extending from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The idea is that it would serve as a buffer zone between NATO and the Soviet empire. The frontiers of the neutral zone Molotov has not defined, but his clear intention is that it should include the whole of Germany, thus breaching the NATO front...
...firm refusal to consider a "neutralized Germany" pinpointed the basic weakness of the Molotov play: it flies in the face of national self-respect. No proud nation, least of all 70 million Germans, is likely to take kindly to the Russians' suggestion that it join a buffer belt of international eunuchs and meekly stand aside from conflicts which might decide its fate. Along these lines, the reaction of Tito's Yugoslavia was symptomatic and instructive. "One of the basic characteristics of a buffer state is the absence of independence," said one paper. Added another: "To imagine Yugoslavia...
...from foot powder to field telephones, from halftracks to water-purifying halazone tablets. "Annihilation of the enemy," said Picado defiantly, "is the modern doctrine of war." But after eleven days of fighting, most of his troops, punished by the Mustangs and harassed by the Loyalists, stumbled into the borderline buffer zone created by the Organization of American States. Back in San José, President Figueres, referring to West Pointer Picado's tactics, chortled: "You can send them to school, but you can't give them brains...
Pipes points to the importation of liberalism, socialism, nationalism, and utilitarianism from the West as intellectual ammunition for the Russian Populist movement that eventually shook the Tzarist regime. Perhaps the USSR's current eagerness to maintain control over buffer states in Eastern Europe is as much a desire to have a barrier against information as for military protection along its western border. For the European borderlands people in the Soviet Union have once shown themselves vulnerable to disturbing Western ideas of natural rights and democratic law, and they could succumb again...
...been signed by 20 nations, will go into effect this winter. Under the plan (opposed by the U.S., West Germany and Brazil), a world tin council will keep tin prices between 80? and $1.10 a lb. (current price, New York: 96?) by selling tin from a 25,000-ton buffer stock when it gets too high, buying when it gets...